Replication Package - Inter-Organizational Collaborations in Open-Source Software Ecosystems

This release provides the complete replication package for the research article "Inter-Organizational Collaborations in Open-Source Software Ecosystems", accepted for publication in Journal of Systems and Software. The replication package supports transparency and reproducibility of the empirical analyses presented in the article. It documents the full research workflow and includes the data artifacts, analysis scripts, and documentation required to reproduce the reported results. This release includes: Processed and aggregated datasets derived from longitudinal mining of GitHub repositories Documentation of data collection, preprocessing, and affiliation disambiguation procedures Supplementary materials supporting figures and tables reported in the manuscript The study examines inter-organizational collaboration across five major open-source software ecosystems (React, Vue, TensorFlow, Bootstrap, and Flutter) over a ten-year observation period. It aims to identify key contributing and influential organizations, analyze collaboration patterns, and understand their evolution over time based on co-editing relationships in source code repositories and established social network analysis metrics. Version note: This release corresponds to the author accepted manuscript that led to acceptance at Journal of Systems and Software. No further changes affecting the reported analyses or results are expected. License: All materials are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This release is intended for long-term archiving and citation and is archived via Zenodo, where it has been assigned a persistent DOI.Archived on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18086905