Co-authorship Networks in Additive Manufacturing Studies Based on Social Network Analysis

In the last 30 years there has been growing interest in additive manufacturing technology. Co-authorship of published papers plays such an important role in scientific development. The collaborative research social network on the field of additive manufacturing is paid particular attention in this paper. A framework based on open source software is proposed to automate the data collection and social network analysis. The characteristics of the overall network structure is analyzed and visualized. The development process of AM collaboration community mode is discussed. So as to provide inspiration for collaborative research and further development of additive manufacturing technology.