Reflections of social psychology in the journal Zeitschrift fur Sozialpsychologie

In the literature a number of empirical findings report on the pattern of s ocial relations which in general arise coincidentally more frequently betwe en similar persons (Birds of a feather nock together). But with increasing distance the preference between the persons is diminishing. Here similarity can be predicated on a variety of characteristics. This study is to docume nt that the number of publications of authors that appeared in the Zeitschr ift fur Sozialpsychologie within the period from 1970 to 1993 has qualified as such a characteristic. In this case the distance between the authors is commensurate with the logarithm of the number of publications. The relativ e frequency of observed coauthorships between authors with i and j publicat ions per author serves as a non-linear function of the difference between t he logarithm of i and j. This non-linear function is also validly applicabl e to other coauthorship networks such as to physicists.