What publications metadata tell us about the evolution of a scientific community: the case of the Brazilian human–computer interaction conference series

Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa (), Milene Selbach Silveira () and Isabela Gasparini ()
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Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa: PUC-Rio
Milene Selbach Silveira: PUCRS
Isabela Gasparini: Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas – CCT

Scientometrics, 2017, vol. 110, issue 1, No 15, 275-300

Abstract: Abstract Human–computer interaction (HCI) is a research field which engages different disciplines, interest groups and communities, and which has emerged in different countries at different times. To understand how the HCI research community has evolved in Brazil, this paper applies data and visual analytics to its main conference series, the Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems, henceforth IHC. We have explored the metadata of all 340 full papers published in the 14 editions of IHC. Our goal was to investigate the evolution of the Brazilian HCI community so we can raise the level of “self-knowledge” and thus discuss strategies that can further help develop this research community. From our analysis, we could understand more deeply the authorship profile of our community and how it has changed over time, the co-authorship networks evolution, the prominent institutions and states, the reference profile and the research topics over time. We hope that this paper will contribute to inspire other scientific communities to analyze themselves, and encourage their own discussions.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; Scientific production history; Evolution of scientific community; HCI research in Brazil; Data and visual analytics; 68-03; 01-06 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Y10 Y80 Y91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-2162-4

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