An Upstream-Reciprocity-Based Strategy for Academic Social Networks Using Public Goods Game
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22107158 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nakema Y Deonauth (0000-0001-6793-7111, Dalian University of Technology), Mingchu Li (0000-0001-8280-2936, Dalian University of Technology), Shuo Yu (0009-0008-3346-7527, Dalian University of Technology), Xiangtai Chen (0000-0002-6619-9396, Dalian University of Technology) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1417-1426 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2329-924X • E-ISSN: 2373-7476 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1109/tcss.2021.3085174 |
| OpenAlex | W3207456944 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 40 |
Academic social networks (ASNs) have attracted significant attention in recent years as researchers try to understand and improve how research is conducted. Several approaches have been investigated to identify, predict, and recommend scientific collaborators but few have considered to explore a strategy using the game theory. This article investigates the social phenomenon of upstream reciprocity (UR) using a game-theoretical framework. UR occurs when a person who has just received help, in turn, offers help to another. A suitable multiplayer game, the public goods game (PGG), is adopted to model scholarly interactions of coauthorship networks. Experiments are performed on real datasets in which cascades of UR scholars are identified. More importantly, the proposed UR strategy achieves better performance than non-UR scholars as they are found to have a higher publication and citation count. Furthermore, UR behavior is found to replicate throughout the network, which in turn increases the likelihood of others adopting it. Finally, theoretical proof and simulations suggest that UR has the potential to become an evolutionary stable strategy (ESS)
Citation · Data science · Economics · Game theory · Mathematical economics · Microeconomics · Public good · Public goods game · Replicate · Social media · Social network analysis · Social science · Sociology · Telecommunications · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Evolution and Genetic Dynamics · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Mathematics
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| Citations per year | 1.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |