Visibility of studies in social network analysis in South America: Its evolution and metrics from 1990 to 2013
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Social network analysis, South America, Bibliometrics, ScientometricsAbstract
The aim of the study is to analyze the scientific productivity in South American countries related to Social Network Analysis in accordance with the representation of the countries, institutions, researchers and their theoretical references (citations used in these productions). The present study spans from 1990 to 2013 (31/05/2013). Bibliographical description was used to discover the status of Social Network Analysis in the scientific literature and the quantitative method to analyze publication and citation frequency data using Bibliometrics and Scientometrics. The data was collected from the Web of Science database, refining the data for the countries selected: Argentina n=166; Brazil n=775; Bolivia n=28; Chile n=179; n=78; Colombia n=78; Ecuador n=19; Paraguay n=8; Peru n=33; Uruguay n=21; Venezuela n=48 no articles were published from Guyana, Falkland Islands, Suriname, retrieving a total of 922 scientific articles. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, DetDraw, and CiteSpace were used for the treatment of data. Data showed that Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Peru maintained an especially close relationship with the United tates of America. Among the South American countries, the centrality of the network consisted of Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
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