Most of the data is coming from the DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and the rest is coming from CsAuthors.net own database.

We are working hard to keep everything up-to-date. However, we know that there are many papers not yet included in our dataset.

If something is wrong or missing, feel free to write me at .

The Dijkstra number describes the collaborative distance between an author and Edsger W. Dijkstra.

In our dataset 90.1% of authors are connected to Edsger W. Dijkstra and the average Dijkstra number among them is 5.08.

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These kind of number/metrics are quite famous and already well defined in other fields.

• The "Erdős number" expresses the collaborative distance with Paul Erdős, the famous Hungarian mathematician.
• The "Bacon number" expresses the co-acting distance with Kevin Bacon.

The Erdős number describes the collaborative distance between an author and Paul Erdős.

In our dataset 90.1% of authors are connected to Paul Erdős and the average Erdős number among them is 4.67.

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