Social support is important for the successful completion of doctoral studies. The aim of this
study was to explore how individual differences in supervisory and research community …

Mentoring seems to be an important way to start and advance individual researcher's career
in science. Therefore, it is essential to examine the factors related to successful mentoring in …

Inventions–concepts, devices, procedures–are often created by networks of interacting
agents in which the agents can be individuals (as in a scientific discipline) or they can …

The aim of this study is to explore the network effects of the national and disciplinary
community and actor attribute effects on the future performance of scientists in two fields of …

In the paper the effects of individual and social factors on the performance of doctoral
students (young researchers) in Slovenia are studied. The paper starts with an overview of …

The article addresses some issues related to the definition and analysis of scientific
collaboration. Starting with a general presentation of studies on Slovenian co-authorship …

In this article we compare regression models obtained to predict PhD students' academic
performance in the universities of Girona (Spain) and Slovenia. Explanatory variables are …

In this paper, we focus on the importance of social relations for the performance of
individuals and, more specifically, for the academic performance of doctoral students in …

The article examines the structure of the collaboration networks of research groups where
Slovenian and Spanish PhD students are pursuing their doctorate. The units of analysis are …

This paper is the written text underlying the keynote presentation at the Sunbelt XXXVIII in
Utrecht, 2018. It presents a neo-structural approach to social processes in the organizational …