Análisis de redes sociales por geo-mapa: Las relaciones institucionales de la UFMT/Brasil

Abstract

This study has the objective to identify the scientific representation of the Federal University of the Mato Grosso (UFMT), relationed to the participation on the programs Google Earth and Google Maps, where the most important relationships are showing with more than 5 articles published on Web of Science. For recover data, was used a search by the institutional affiliation (C1) while the treatment was done on Excel using GPS Visualizer's, for to map the longitudes and latitudes. At a later time was created a page for to support the structure on the format .Kml, language that can be read by the Google Maps and Google Earth. On the network analysis, the origination of relation map it passes for big changes becoming a trend for to indentify relations in a higher level, one of the ways to gain global visibility of a research institution related to the employees, scientific colleague, finding the key on the scale of transposition that the Federal University of Mato Grosso could sign importants agreements in their scientific cooperation (with the participation of the Universities: USP, UFRJ, Federal de Visçosa, Unicamp and Unesp) and on the foreign countries with Institute Max Planck of limnology and from Darmstadt Technology University, whom had been the most prominent on the productive scale. In scientific areas was detached in relations on Medicine, Agriculture, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry and Animal Production.