Sociology Technology
To explore the impact of scientific collaboration and large-scale repositories in the field of genomics, we analyze co-authorship patterns in NCBIs big data repository GenBank using trace metadata from co-authorship of traditional publications and co-authorship of datasets. We demonstrate that using complex network analysis to explore both networks independently and jointly provides a much richer description of the community, and addresses some of the methodological concerns discussed in previous literature regarding the use of co-authorship data to study scientific collaboration.