The understanding of the collaboration network of a department of postgraduate allows the identification of a number of items related to the process of scientific collaboration, such as level of cooperation of the community involved, average distance between collaborators, authors who most collaborate, groups collaborating with more intensity etc. Through the bibliographic production informed to CAPES system for the period 2005-2012 coauthorship networks were created and analyzed using social network analysis. It was found an average of 3.4 collaborative authors per publication, coauthorship networks with low density, a larger number of components in the early years of the program and authors with high productivity, but with low degree centrality. It is believed that the analysis and discussion of the results presented in this paper have achieved the goal of diagnosing macro bibliographic production of the program in terms of scientific collaboration and is expected to be a useful tool for decision making in organizational and individual level.
Collaboration; Coauthorship networks; Social network analysis
