Collaboration network
Travis Osterman's research is collaborative by design. This page maps the co-authorship network behind it: everyone he has co-published with on at least 2 papers or abstracts, drawn from the same bibliographic library that powers the rest of this site.
How to read it
The graph is force-directed. Each node is a co-author, and its size reflects how many papers and abstracts that person shares with Travis Osterman. A link connects two people who appear on the same work, so tightly connected clusters correspond to standing research teams rather than one-time author lists.
The network includes 108 collaborators joined by 720 co-authorship links. A person only enters the graph once they reach 2 shared items with him, which keeps incidental single co-authorships from crowding the picture and leaves a map of the people he actually works with repeatedly.
Most frequent co-authors
Ranked by the number of papers and abstracts each person shares with Travis Osterman. The full network runs to 108 collaborators; the 15 below each share 4 or more.
| Collaborator | Shared papers & abstracts |
|---|---|
| Jan Wolber | 12 |
| Christine Micheel | 11 |
| Levente Lippenszky | 9 |
| Michele LeNoue-Newton | 9 |
| Eszter Csernai | 7 |
| Neha M. Jain | 6 |
| Ben Ho Park | 6 |
| Kathleen Mittendorf | 6 |
| Dan M. Roden | 5 |
| Tricia Heinrichs | 5 |
| Debra L. Friedman | 5 |
| Wei-Qi Wei | 5 |
| David Smith | 5 |
| Kathleen F. Mittendorf | 4 |
| Pablo Napan-Molina | 4 |
What it shows, and where it comes from
Two patterns stand out. A dense core of frequent co-authors sits at the center, people who appear together across many papers and form the teams behind Travis Osterman's informatics and oncology work; his most frequent co-author appears on 12 shared items. Around that core is a wider rim of colleagues connected through one or two projects. Node size tracks how central a person is to the ongoing work, not how important any single paper was.
Data source. The network is generated from the same Zotero bibliographic library that drives /research/ and /speaking/, using the author lists on every indexed paper and abstract. A collaborator qualifies at 2 or more shared items, so even the smallest nodes represent a repeated collaboration rather than a single co-authorship. The full node-and-link dataset is published as JSON at /assets/data/coauthor-network.json. Because names are taken verbatim from the source records, a collaborator whose name is recorded two different ways can appear as more than one node, which can split a single person's true count across those nodes. Last updated , when the graph was last regenerated from the library.
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