article_snippet.sent: Lead author Mihail Bota of USC Dornsife created the database from more than 16,000 reports of connections, which Lead author Mihail Bota of USC Dornsife weighted both on the strength of the connection and the reliability of the methodology used to discover it.
article_snippet.sent: The process took more than 4,000 hours to complete, yielding a database that is free and available.
article_snippet.sent: Olaf Sporns of Indiana University subsequently performed a network analysis of the connections.