Seventeenth International Conference on the Arts in Society

Abstract

There are several interpretations of the processes that define “academic collaboration” in many domains, from formal, empirical and computer science, to humanities and digital humanities, including psychology, philosophy, sociology, semiotics and art research. In scientometrics and governance, this theme is approached theoretically, statistically and from a strategic policy perspective. Based on network analysis and graphs, we model the sociotechnical phenomenon of academic collaboration in art research according to different modalities — multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary. A quantitative and visual description provided by graph theory and network analysis, and a qualitative outline interviews with the professors and researchers, to understand a real-life collaboration experience both contribute to the observation of academic collaboration/co-authorship. The analysis of co-authorship bonding and the structure of relationship between areas of expertise of each researcher, is based on 340 curricula from the standardized Brazilian Lattes Digital Platform, and form the scope of our mapping, that consists basically in (i) analysis of co-authorship of publications in indexed journals, (ii) identification of patterns of collaboration in articles and description of collaborative statistics, (iii) classification of researchers according to their role in the collaboration network, (iv) evaluation of subnetworks based on field of activity registered by art researchers in their Lattes curricula.