Thematic contents as subsides for indication of collaboration in information science: PPGCI/UNESP and PPGCI/UFPB on evidences

Abstract

Scientific collaboration offers a support source to improve the result and maximize the potential of scientific knowledge and of scientific production. When mediated by networks on human connection, they lead to growth, the sharing, development and innovation. The present research aims to identify professors who are credentialed in the research lines: "Ethics, management and policies of information" (PPGCI/UFPB), and "Management, mediation and use of information" (PPGCI/UNESP). Also, it aims to characterize the scientific production about the themes and propose the formation of groups of professors according to specific issues of their acting lines. The analysis of content and of social networks enabled the identification of researchers who act in common themes and propose a social relation for collaboration. In relation to its lineation, it is an exploratory and descriptive study, with quantitative and qualitative approach of documental type. The data collected on Lattes curricula of professors were referent from 2005 to 2010. The proposals for the formation of inter-organizational networks according to specific themes of acting of professors were presented. Through the analysis of networks, it is possible to verify the multiple possible connections and their chain reactions that can occur among the researchers of the research lines mentioned above.