Metodologia para análise de relevância de publicações através de rede de citações

Abstract

Scientific research is defined as a set of activities that are aimed at the discovery of new knowledge relevant to the solution of existing problems. Scientific knowledge is not just the discovery of new facts and laws, but also in its publication. This is to obtain and communicate results through forms of scientific production. To understand the complex scientific production system numerous analytical techniques have been applied in digital repositories. These techniques aim to identify relevant scientific productions based on indicators. In this sense the present work aims to create a methodology that facilitate the identification of publications that are relevant to specific areas of expertise. For this we used three contexts, the first on the area of social network analysis, the second on the records of 20 years from webmedia and finally on area of embedded systems. As a source of study our software tool achieved several results for the areas of knowledge between them we can mention the development of publications for the most relevant publication vehicles and the classification of network communities.