Uma análise da autoria e das redes de coautoria dos artigos de dois eventos relevantes para a área de computação no cenário brasileiro

Abstract

In a scientific event, the diversity of topics in its publications may be related to the size of its community or even the number of times it has been held. By associating the diversification of topics with the size of the community, we seek to understand whether the set of authors is diverging and moving away from a single research focus, opening up opportunities for studies with more diversified subjects. When we analyze a community of researchers, we are interested in understanding how research is carried out at a given scientific event. Different approaches can be adopted in this context, such as the analysis of co-authorship networks within a community of researchers, which is commonly used in bibliometric studies. Through these analyses, it’s possible to identify characteristics of the co-authorship relations between the authors, allowing new understandings of the community to be acquired; groups of authors can be identified, revealing, for example, specific research interests and opening up new co-authorship relationships between authors in the community. In Brazil, the Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computational Systems (IHC) has brought together researchers interested in the field of human-computer interaction since 1998. In the Ibero-American context, with more than two decades of existence since it was created in 1998, the Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER) presents an active community spread across different parts of the world, showing a strong relevance to Brazilian research in the area of requirements engineering. This work presents an analysis of the IHC and the WER under different aspects related, mainly, to their authors and involves different types of visualizations, such as the co-authorship networks of the events. In the case of the IHC, the study carried out a more in-depth analysis of the authors of the event’s main tracks; in all, 1,388 authors from 829 IHC publications were considered in the analysis. In WER, the analysis, in addition to the authors, also considered the subjects explored in the publications of the event; in WER, 621 authors and more than 4,500 words from the titles of 377 articles were analyzed.