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| Author(s): |
Urubatan Rocha Pacheco
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Computação |
| Defense date: | 2010-08-11 |
| Examining board members: |
Ricardo de Oliveira Anido;
Nabor das Chagas Mendonça;
Reinaldo Alvarenga Bergamaschi
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| Advisor: | Ricardo de Oliveira Anido |
| Abstract | |
This work performs social network analysis of the scientific collaborations extracted from bibliographic data bases. The analysis also includes the authors' scientific institution afiliation, and its relation with the main scientific publications and with research subject ontologies. We studied and applied methods that use social network analysis to solve or mitigate the problem of ambiguity in researchers' identities. We also applied the methods for ambiguity resolution for names of institutions, scientific meeting venues, country/state names, etc. Another study subject was measuring the quality of the results. Finally we developed metrics and implemented tools that allow the comparison of the scientific production of institutions, researcher groups, research subjects fields, countries, etc. The tools also produced a ranking of universities based on the prestige of these universities researchers at the co-authorship social network. These results demonstrated that prestige structural information was properly captured showing its correlation with other works that assess the quality of scientific production of universities using similar criteria. (AU) | |