“…Coauthorship networks are a kind of social network which are constructed by connecting two or more authors together if they have coauthored at-least one article. This method has been utilized in a number of fields, such as library and information science (LIS) (Erfanmanesh & Hosseini, 2015;Hu, Hu, Gao, & Zhang, 2011;Larivière, Sugimoto & Cronin, 2012;Liu, Bollen, Nelson, & Van de Sompel, 2005;Shu, Larivière, Mongeon, Julien, & Piper, 2016;Yan, Ding, & Zhu, 2010), scientometrics (Erfanmanesh, Rohani, & Abrizah, 2012), medicine (Gonzalez-Alcaide, Park, Huamaní, Gascón, & Ramos, 2012), general practitioner research (Hong et al, 2016), cardiology (Yu, Shao, & Duan, 2013) and computer science and information systems (Bazzan & Argenta, 2011;Takeda, 2010). The aforementioned researchers have pointed out the functionality and importance of co-authorship networks in the field of complex networks.…”