. Our new research work got accepted in the journal Scientometrics : K.M.A. Aguana and R.C. Batac, Emergence of power-law statistics in the co-authorship networks of Philippine physics researchers, Scientometrics (2025). Here are some thoughts and behind-the-scenes regarding the conceptualization, analyses, and delivery of the work. Laying the foundation. I started working on co-authorship networks of Filipino authors in physics in 2017 together with my student Jasmine Abella (Jas). We began with the set of papers from the National Institute of Physics (NIP), College of Science (CS), University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) [ 1 ] and, in the following year, we extended it to the publications of UPD [ 2 ]. Our analyses focused on the occurrence of Zipf's law, an empirical observation wherein the rank \(r\) of an observation is inversely proportional to its occurrence \(C\), i.e. \[\begin{equation}\label{eqn:zipf}C \propto 1/r = r^{-1} \end{equation}\] In our w...