Study of co-authorship in the nets and the interdisciplinarity in the scientific production on the basis of social network analysis methods: evaluation of the posgraduation program in information science - PPGCI / UFMG
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1518-2924.2006v11nesp1p179Keywords:
Social Network Analysis, Information Science, Metohodology, Interdisciplinary, Co-authorship networkAbstract
This paper discusses the Social Network Analysis (SNA) as a method to be broadly applied in researches in the Information Scienc (IS) field. This science is, normally, presented as an interdisciplinary filed, but the reseaches lines conducted in Brazil have differents relationship with other disciplines, and doing so, dis-similars interdisciplinaries characteristics. The analysis of the co-authorship network of the professors of the PPGCI/UFMG emphasizes both, the strenght of the methodology and the characteristics of the colaboration in the IS. The article gives an overview of the theoretical basis of the SNA, and presents studies about subjects related to the Information Science field that are done applying SNA, mainly the coauthorship network analysis. Finally, the methodological approach of this research and the main results are presented.Downloads
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Copyright (c) 2007 Antonio Braz de Oliveira e Silva, Renato Fabiano Matheus, Fernando Silva Parreiras, Tatiane A. Silva Parreiras

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