ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF COAUTHORSHIP IN COMPUTING GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN BRAZIL

Abstract

This paper describes the basis for a study of the dynamic relationships of (co- )authorship among full time professors from Brazilian Computer Science graduate programs. 889 researchers were identified, working in 45 graduate programs. A robust entity resolution heuristic was developed, allowing the identification of (co-)authorship relationships among researchers with accuracy above 96%. The social network analysis allowed for the discovery of some interesting phenomena about the dynamics of the Brazilian scientific production, related to the increasing in the production within and among graduate programs.