Co-authorship Patterns of Italian Statisticians by Combining Different Data Sources

The present paper aims at describing the scientific collaboration patterns of the Italian academic statisticians by exploiting the information retrieved through different bibliographic archives (ISI-WoS, Current Index to Statistics), and the bibliographic information of the database of nationally funded research projects. A data merging procedure is adopted to obtain a unified dataset containing both topinternational as well as nationally oriented production. The unified dataset will be used as basis for network analysis.