Scientific production on Social Capital: bibliographic coupling study

Authors

  • Elaine Oliveira Lucas Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC)
  • Jose Carlos Garcia-Zorita Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)

Keywords:

Bibliographic coupling. Social Capital. Scientific Production.Citation analysis.

Abstract

Currently, the definition ofSocial Capitalhave differentapproaches and, as a consequence, several applicationsin scientificresearch of different fields. Based on this,we intend toexplore theSocialCapital’s content in this scientific production, cognizing which authorswere chosenin used references as well as which keywords, institutions, andcountries workwith the due term within thescientific field of Information Science. Assuming thatthe citations ofscientific papersrepresent an importantsource ofinformationfor researchers, andserveas a tool forperformance assessment of thescientific outputof a certain field, we analyzed the bibliographiccitationsof theliterature corpus dealing with “SocialCapital”through bibliographiccoupling.The analyzed bibliographic productionwaspublishedbetween 2005and 2013andlisted in theWebof Science(WoS). The softwaresBiblioTools®andGephi® were used for the analysisof bibliographiccoupling and the subsequent corpus analysis. In conclusion, we realized that bibliographiccoupling andco-occurrence(author, keywords, institutions, etc.) are importantmethodsin mapping scientific production and creating maps which canbecomevaluable tools for perception,assessment and managementof scientificproduction on certain topicsfor differentscientific fields.

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Author Biographies

Elaine Oliveira Lucas, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC)

Doutora em Ciência da Informação pela Universidade de São Paulo (PPGCI-USP). Docente do Programa de Pós Graduação em Gestão da Informação (PPGInfo) e do Departamento de Biblioteconomia (DBI) da Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC).

Jose Carlos Garcia-Zorita, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)

Doutor pela Universidad Carlos III de Madrid(UC3M). Docente da Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M -
España)

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Published

2014-12-22

How to Cite

LUCAS, E. O.; GARCIA-ZORITA, J. C. Scientific production on Social Capital: bibliographic coupling study. Em Questão, Porto Alegre, v. 20, n. 3, p. 27–42, 2014. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/49122. Acesso em: 4 may. 2025.

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Vol. 20 No. 3 (2014)

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