Development of tools for academic social network analysis

• Grant number: 13/06084-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2013
• End date: July 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computer Systems
• Principal Investigator: Luciano Antonio Digiampietri
• Grantee: Jamison José da Silva Lima
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Brazil has a unique database about researchers and their researches: the Lattes Platform. This platform contains several information about publications, technical products and research projects which can be used in order to identify different kinds of relationships among researchers, allowing the construction of academic social networks. The goal of this project is to develop tools to calculate different individual and structural metrics of the academic network created from Lattes Platform data, in order to facilitate the productivity analysis, experts' identification and relationships prediction. (AU)