Colaboração científica nas pesquisas sobre biobutanol no mundo entre 1945 e 2014

Abstract

This article built the co-authorship networks in publications in scientific journals registered in the Web of Science Main Collection, from 1945, year of creation of this collection, to 2014, covering 70 years of publications. As filter parameters was only used the term "Biobutanol" in the Title field. The method used was the bibliometric, involving quantitative and not qualitative analysis. In networks obtained, the vertices represent, as the topic, countries, authors and institutions, and the edges represent the co-authorship between the vertices. The work presented in this article is important because analyzes and identifies how it occurs and how intensively networks are structured so that they can analyze its stability, and served also to define the starting point of scientific literature on the subject in world, as has behaved the production curveand the principal actors involved in the production and diffusion of research on the topic. The literature review raised 118 publications, including 29 countries, 305 authors and 95 institutions. The generated networks are non-directed, and demonstrates low collaboration between countries and institutions, and increased co-authorship.