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This chapter focuses on the researcher, the knowledge worker. Relevant information emerges from two approaches to the study of research networks: (1) in the context of consolidated research groups from leading universities and (2) within the context of a new university, geographically isolated, but connected both nationally and globally, a new network. Researchers from different disciplinary fields—Physics, Engineering, Social Sciences and Humanities, and Education—give their perceptions about networks issues, such as working in networks. We ask: what do researchers from two different countries say about networking? And, what does the analysis of their networks graphs show as an answer? The chapter ends by presenting a special case study, the biodiversity network.
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CNPq is the Brazilian National Council of Technological and Scientific Development, subordinated to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil, and FCT is the Science and Technology Foundation, Portugal.
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The CNPq Lattes Platform harbors the curricula of Brazilian and foreigner researchers. This database in 2014 registered 119,402 curricula. The Lattes Platform also hosts data on leader researchers, students, and technicians of any research group in Brazil. A strict evaluation process defines a researcher CNPq level of distinction based on productivity and leading positions in the area.
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Degree of intermediation marks the power of the nodes to connect in search of resources.
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http://lattes.cnpq.br/5253872582067659. Dr. Carolina Joana da Silva.
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Leite, D., Pinho, I. (2017). Research Collaboration Networks: What Do Researchers Say and What Networks Show?. In: Evaluating Collaboration Networks in Higher Education Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45225-8_4
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