A geographical analysis of knowledge production in computer science

We analyze knowledge production in Computer Science by means of coauthorship networks. For this, we consider 30 graduate programs of different regions of the world, being 8 programs in Brazil, 16 in North America (3 in Canada and 13 in the United States), and 6 in Europe (2 in France, 1 in Switzerland and 3 in the United Kingdom). We use a dataset that consists of 176,537 authors and 352,766 publication entries distributed among 2,176 publication venues. The results obtained for different metrics of collaboration social networks indicate the process of knowledge production has achanged differently for each region. Research is increasingly done in teams across different fields of Computer Science. The size of the giant component indicates the existence of isolated collaboration groups in the European network, contrasting to the degree of connectivity found in the Brazilian and North-American counterparts. We also analyzed the temporal evolution of the social networks representing the t...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Alberto H. F. Laender, Guilherme Vale Menezes, Nivio Ziviani, Virgílio A. F. Almeida
• Keywords: Collaboration Social Networks, Computer Science, Internet Technology, Social Networks Copyright, WWW 2009