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[pointilliste]

You can play Six Degrees of Separation with film actors. Rudolph Valentino could be linked with Traci Lords in a few easy steps (haven't tried it

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[sly_girl]

Hmmm ... you could stretch it beyond citations to cast a wider net. Co-authorship is pretty obvious but could you include things like "So and so marked so and so's thesis" or "These two both presented papers at such and such a convention"?

[pointilliste]

That seems valid. Or so and so used to work in this department. There's a fair degree of professional incest in pharmacology, at least in Melbourne.