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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.

Wei Cheng's displayed neighborhood

8 of 8 direct collaborators shown.

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1Distinct papers
8Unique collaborators
8.0Full weighted degree
2026Active span
9Component size

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Co-authorship neighborhood for Wei Cheng 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. Wei Cheng Hai Li Mingchen Ma Ning Yang Tingjun Chen Yi Zou Yiming Li
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 Wei Cheng Focal 1 8 8.0 2026
2 Hai Li Direct collaborator 1 8 8.0 2026
3 Mingchen Ma Direct collaborator 1 8 8.0 2026
4 Ning Yang Direct collaborator 1 8 8.0 2026
5 Tingjun Chen Direct collaborator 1 8 8.0 2026
6 Yi Zou Direct collaborator 1 8 8.0 2026
7 Yiming Li Direct collaborator 1 8 8.0 2026
8 Yiran Chen Direct collaborator 1 8 8.0 2026
9 Yu Cheng 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
Yiming Li — Ning Yang110.125
Yiming Li — Yi Zou110.125
Yiming Li — Mingchen Ma110.125
Yiming Li — Yiran Chen110.125
Yiming Li — Wei Cheng110.125
Yiming Li — Hai Li110.125
Yiming Li — Yu Cheng110.125
Yiming Li — Tingjun Chen110.125
Ning Yang — Yi Zou110.125
Ning Yang — Mingchen Ma110.125
Ning Yang — Yiran Chen110.125
Ning Yang — Wei Cheng110.125
Ning Yang — Hai Li110.125
Ning Yang — Yu Cheng110.125
Ning Yang — Tingjun Chen110.125
Yi Zou — Mingchen Ma110.125
Yi Zou — Yiran Chen110.125
Yi Zou — Wei Cheng110.125
Yi Zou — Hai Li110.125
Yi Zou — Yu Cheng110.125
Yi Zou — Tingjun Chen110.125
Mingchen Ma — Yiran Chen110.125
Mingchen Ma — Wei Cheng110.125
Mingchen Ma — Hai Li110.125
Mingchen Ma — Yu Cheng110.125
Mingchen Ma — Tingjun Chen110.125
Yiran Chen — Wei Cheng110.125
Yiran Chen — Hai Li110.125
Yiran Chen — Yu Cheng110.125
Yiran Chen — Tingjun Chen110.125
Wei Cheng — Hai Li110.125
Wei Cheng — Yu Cheng110.125
Wei Cheng — Tingjun Chen110.125
Hai Li — Yu Cheng110.125
Hai Li — Tingjun Chen110.125
Yu Cheng — Tingjun Chen110.125

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.