Interdisciplinary Collaborations in the Brazilian Scientific Community

Abstract

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.