Finding most collaborating mathematicians a co-author network analysis of mathematics domain

This paper analyzes the co-author network of Mathematics domain with respect to top publishing authors. A comprehensive dataset of more than 57,000 authors belonging to Mathematics domain has been obtained for the purpose of analysis. Top publishing authors are extracted from the dataset and their characteristics are compared with the rest of the authors. Multiple Co-author networks variants have been analyzed using R igraph package for this study. Important authors are identifies with help of graph centrality measures that include degree, closeness and betweennes centrality. We have found that the top publishing authors network represents reasonably well the overall Mathematics author community.