Active Arkansas researchers whose co-authorship neighborhoods span the most distinct research topics. These are the people most positioned to translate between fields — high-leverage candidates for cross-college seed funding, pilot grants, or interdisciplinary recruitment.
Each researcher is scored as topic_span × cross_ratio × log(1 + betweenness),
where topic_span is the number of distinct research topics among their
co-authors (with at least 2 co-authors per topic, to filter outliers),
cross_ratio is the share of their collaborations that cross topic
boundaries, and betweenness is the structural centrality of their
position in the Arkansas co-author network. Multiplying all three rewards
researchers strong on every dimension and punishes those strong on only one.
Eligibility: active researcher with at least 6 co-authors, at least 3 distinct
neighbor topics, and at least 5 cross-topic collaborations.
This is a structural signal on Arkansas's existing co-author graph — a description of who already bridges fields, not a prescription of who should be hired or funded.
| # | Researcher | Connects | Span | Cross % | Betweenness | Score |
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