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Co-authorship neighborhood

A bounded, provider-scoped projection of shared papers in this corpus. It is not a map of importance, influence, intellectual similarity, geography, or causal relationships.

Gelei Xu's displayed neighborhood

8 of 8 direct collaborators shown.

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1Distinct papers
8Unique collaborators
8.0Full weighted degree
2026Active span
12Component size

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Co-authorship neighborhood for Gelei Xu A deterministic circular layout of the focal author and up to 20 direct collaborators. Edge thickness represents full shared-paper weight. An ordered table follows the graphic. Gelei Xu Chaoran Chen Collin McMillan Maria Dhakal Ningzhi Tang T. Li Yiyu Shi
Circular placement is deterministic and only prevents overlap. Proximity and direction do not measure intellectual, geographic, social, or causal distance. Square = focal author; circles = collaborators; labels identify the focal and highest-weight neighbors.

Ordered author table

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Accessible table equivalent for nodes in the displayed subgraph, ordered with the focal author first and collaborators by selected edge weight. Metrics use each node's full filtered provider scope, not only displayed edges.
Display orderAuthorRoleDistinct papersUnique collaboratorsWeighted degreeActive span
1 Gelei Xu Focal 1 8 8.0 2026
2 Chaoran Chen Direct collaborator 1 8 8.0 2026
3 Collin McMillan Direct collaborator 2 11 12.0 2026
4 Maria Dhakal Direct collaborator 2 11 12.0 2026
5 Ningzhi Tang Direct collaborator 1 8 8.0 2026
6 T. Li Direct collaborator 1 8 8.0 2026
7 Yiyu Shi Direct collaborator 1 8 8.0 2026
8 Yu Huang Direct collaborator 1 8 8.0 2026
9 Zihan Fang Direct collaborator 1 8 8.0 2026

Displayed collaboration table

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Undirected co-authorship edges among displayed authors. Each pair is listed once.
Author pairShared papersFull weightFractional weight
T. Li — Chaoran Chen110.125
T. Li — Yu Huang110.125
T. Li — Gelei Xu110.125
T. Li — Collin McMillan110.125
T. Li — Maria Dhakal110.125
T. Li — Ningzhi Tang110.125
T. Li — Yiyu Shi110.125
T. Li — Zihan Fang110.125
Chaoran Chen — Yu Huang110.125
Chaoran Chen — Gelei Xu110.125
Chaoran Chen — Collin McMillan110.125
Chaoran Chen — Maria Dhakal110.125
Chaoran Chen — Ningzhi Tang110.125
Chaoran Chen — Yiyu Shi110.125
Chaoran Chen — Zihan Fang110.125
Yu Huang — Gelei Xu110.125
Yu Huang — Collin McMillan110.125
Yu Huang — Maria Dhakal110.125
Yu Huang — Ningzhi Tang110.125
Yu Huang — Yiyu Shi110.125
Yu Huang — Zihan Fang110.125
Gelei Xu — Collin McMillan110.125
Gelei Xu — Maria Dhakal110.125
Gelei Xu — Ningzhi Tang110.125
Gelei Xu — Yiyu Shi110.125
Gelei Xu — Zihan Fang110.125
Collin McMillan — Maria Dhakal220.375
Collin McMillan — Ningzhi Tang110.125
Collin McMillan — Yiyu Shi110.125
Collin McMillan — Zihan Fang110.125
Maria Dhakal — Ningzhi Tang110.125
Maria Dhakal — Yiyu Shi110.125
Maria Dhakal — Zihan Fang110.125
Ningzhi Tang — Yiyu Shi110.125
Ningzhi Tang — Zihan Fang110.125
Yiyu Shi — Zihan Fang110.125

Graph construction and limits

Each distinct paper contributes an undirected pair for every two eligible identities in its deduplicated latest Semantic Scholar author list. Self-loops are removed. Solo papers count toward an author's paper total but create no edge. The selected display is an ego subgraph. Paper, collaborator, weighted-degree, and active-span metrics for every displayed node use the full filtered provider view; component size describes the focal author's component.

Immutable provider payloads are stored once. A separate receipt log records a later delivery of an earlier payload, so roster reversions remain visible. Exact duplicate receipts are idempotent. Equal timestamps use receipt insertion order as the tie-breaker.

Co-authorship records shared paper attribution only. It does not establish contribution size, research quality, influence, friendship, topic similarity, or citation relationships.