Network of relations between federal institutes of education and the public universities from the south of Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Garcia, Renata Ivone
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Matias, Márcio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Em Questão (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/85064
• topic: Webometria. Menção web. Análise de Redes Sociais. Instituto Federal de Educação; Ciência e Tecnologia.

The objective of this study was to analyze, through techniques and metrics of Social Network Analysis, the network of connections established by web mentions between the Federal Institutes of Education of the southern region of Brazil and the public universities from the same region. The study was characterized as descriptive and presented a qualitative-quantitative approach through the use of Social Network Analysis metrics and content categorization. The results of the web mentions collection identified 25.507 valid web references among the Institutions of Higher Education. The Federal Institutes of Education with the highest degree centrality was the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina. With regard to density, it was noticed that all Institutions of Higher Education make web mentions among themselves, which represents a highly connected network. However, it was perceived three clusters that established a greater number of connections, precisely the Institutions of Higher Education from each state of the southern Brazil, which shows the fact that geographically closer institutions tend to establish strong ties. In the strong ties were identified the five most recurrent content contexts: scientific events; elements of study; general disclosure; scientific journals; and server qualification. It was concluded, therefore, that studies involving web references and Social Network Analysis could be used to study relations between Federal Institutes of Education and universities, which will allow, in future studies, to focus on specific aspects of such relations, such as cooperation in production and publication of scientific articles.