PAGE\*MERGEFORMAT2CallforPapers[SpecialTopic]StaticandDynamicAspectsofScientificCollaborationNetworkThespecialtopiccallsforpapersonStaticandDynamicAspectsofScientificCollaborationNetworkandsuchpaperswillappearinthejournalStudiesinSociologyofScienceasaspecialcolumn.Affiliatedresearcharea:Seminars,Collaboration,Communities,AtmosphericMeasurements,ParticleMeasurements,ComputerScience,SocialnetworkServices,Modularity,NetworkAnalysis,CollaborationNetworks,ScientificCollaboration,Centrality,GraphclusteringDescriptionCollaborationnetworksarisewhenwemaptheconnectionsbetweenscientistswhichareformedthroughjointpublications.Thesenetworksthusdisplaythesocialstructureofacademia,andalsoallowconclusionsaboutthestructureofscientificknowledge.UsingthecomputersciencepublicationdatabaseDBLP,relationsbetweenauthorsandpublicationsasgraphsandproceedwithexaminingandquantifyingcollaborativerelationswithgraph-basedmethodscanbecompiled.Standardpropertiesofthenetworkandrankauthorsandpublicationsmaybeviewedbycentrality.Additionally,Communitieswithmodularity-basedclusteringaredetectedandtheresultingclusterstoaground-truthbasedonconferencesandthustopicalsimilaritycanbecompared.Inasecondpart,thecombinationofDBLPnetworkdatawithdatafromtheDagstuhlSeminarsallowspeopletoinvestigatewhetherseminarsofthiskind,associalandacademiceventsdesignedtoconnectresearchers,leaveavisibletrackinthestructureofthecollaborationnetwork.Somepeoplesuggestthatsuchsingleeventsarenotinfluentialenoughtochangethenetworkstructuresignificantly.However,thenetworkstructureseemstoinfluenceaparticipant'sdecisiontoacceptordeclineaninvitation.RequirementsInadditiontotheReviewandOriginalArticlesbyinvitedspeakers,weareinvitingyoutosubmitarelevantresearchpaperonStaticandDynamicAspectsofScientificCollaborationNetworksforconsideration.PaperswillbesubjecttonormalpeerreviewandmustcomplywiththeGuideforAuthors.Tosubmitpaperstothe“StaticandDynamicAspectsofScientificCollaborationNetworks”SpecialTopic,pleasegotohttp://www.cscanad