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Interdisciplinary collaborations have recently drawn the attention of scholars, since bridging academic relationships contributes to make scientific collaboration networks stronger. However, previous studies have focused on characterizing specific groups rather than on studying a complete and robust scientific community. In this paper, instead of analyzing particular scenarios, we characterize these collaborations with respect to the eight Brazilian scientific communities defined according to the upper level of a knowledge area classification scheme. Our results show that the Brazilian scientific collaboration network has grown, becoming especially interdisciplinary.
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This classification scheme is organized into the following four levels (see http://bit.ly/1JM2j1k): major area (e.g., Exact and Earth Sciences), area (e.g., Computer Science), subarea (e.g., Theory of Computation) and specialty (e.g., Formal Languages and Automata).
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Work supported by individual grants from CAPES, CNPq and FAPEMIG. The first author thanks the Federal University of Viçosa for the leave granted for professional formation.
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Pessoa Junior, G.J., Dias, T.M.R., Silva, T.H.P., Laender, A.H.F. (2019). Interdisciplinary Collaborations in the Brazilian Scientific Community. In: Doucet, A., Isaac, A., Golub, K., Aalberg, T., Jatowt, A. (eds) Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. TPDL 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11799. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30760-8_13
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