Homophily vs Heterophily --- It would make sense that cooperation and knowledge sharing between actors, especially in scientific networks, would be largely influenced by the level of homophily bias inherently present (and sometimes not necessarily conscious). Exchange flows would be higher when actors speak the same "language", share the same conceptual frameworks and methodologies, as opposed to knowledge sharing between actors coming from different fields or backgrounds (heterophily)

Source author: Mouloud Khelif mouloud.khelif@gmail.com