Strategies which Researchers coming from Japan should take in Social Network of International Robotics Researchers based on Co-Authorship Relations

Abstract

This paper compares and analyzed the structures of social network of robotics researchers that are generated based on co-authorship relations in Journal of RSJ and IEEE/T-RO. It turns out that there are more structural holes in the network of IEEE/T-RO than the network of Journal of RSJ, and it needs more time to bridge over the structural holes. Based on the analysis, this paper proposes the strategies that Japanese researchers should take in the social network of international robotics researchers, and also, suggests the measures for research supporting agencies to promote the above strategies.