South American Social Network Analysis Publications and Citations, 1990-2013

922 scientific articles on Social Network Analysis from South America, collected from the Web of Science database. The data was compiled by Adílson Luiz Pinto using bibliometric and scientometric methods to analyze publication and citation frequencies. The study covers 11 countries, with Brazil, Argentina, and Chile showing the highest centrality in the collaboration network.

Use Cases

• Mapping scientific collaboration networks among South American countries and institutions based on co-authorship data.
• Analyzing citation networks to identify influential authors and theoretical references in the field of Social Network Analysis.
• Studying the thematic evolution of Social Network Analysis research in South America across medicine, psychology, sociology, and other fields mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Contains a defined count of 922 scientific articles.
• Covers a specific 24-year time range from 1990 to 2013.
• Includes country-level publication counts, such as Brazil (n=775) and Argentina (n=166).
• Identifies specific leading institutions and researchers from the analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Data may reflect source bias inherent to the Web of Science database's coverage.

Provenance

Source

Web of Science database

Collection Method

Bibliographical description and quantitative analysis using Bibliometrics and Scientometrics; data treated with SPSS, DetDraw, and CiteSpace.

Time Range

1990 to 2013

Geography

South America (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela)