Scientific research can be described as “a complex, self-organizing, and constantly evolving multi-scale network” (Fortunato et al., 2018). This “multi-scale network” of scientific research has many elements of connectivity– fields, institutions, and works cited by a given publication are all a part of the network and can be analyzed to understand the patterns they affect. All of the researchers above used this network structure as a tool for analysis, focusing especially on the importance of collaborators within this network on a researcher’s career productivity and impact.