A random scientist
· coauthors
One of their coauthors
· coauthors

average number of coauthors, as we keep sampling

a random scientist: their random coauthor:

who gets sampled as a coauthor?

x: a scientist's number of coauthors  ·  y: times they were sampled as someone's coauthor
of the time, the coauthor is more connected
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