Twentieth anniversary of Ensaio Journal analyzed through Social Networks

The purpose of this work is to analyze the twenty-year history of Ensaio Journal using the approach of Social Networks, more specifically to analyze it by the application of the Pajek Software. To this end, all the articles published in the eighty numbers of the Journal in this period were listed, also registering the authors, the keywords used in each paper, and the authors' institutions. The data collected was analyzed in two ways to improve the understanding of how the Journal has evolved over time. In one way, the analysis was made with all the data from this work. In the other, the analysis compared and contrasted the data by dividing them within two separate decades. This work listed a total of 620 articles, 1325 authors, and 1131 keywords found. The first analysis resulted in Top Ten lists, indicating the authors with the largest number of papers published, the institutions most associated with the Journal, and the most frequently used keywords throughout the twenty years of the Journal. The second analysis resulted in the comparison of the Top Ten lists of each decade, showing that Ensaio fulfills its mission as defined at the moment of its creation.

Ensaio Journal; Scientific publishing; Social networks