BOLEMA's Thought Collectives: an analysis through co-authorship networks

Abstract

Knowledge on the scientific production that has been elaborated over the years makes it possible for the scientific community to be aware of which areas have shown greater consolidation and which areas need greater investment. It is with this perspective that co-authorship networks can contribute, diagnosing the scenario, allowing the identification of thought collectives, as well as the authors who have been responsible for knowledge dissemination. In view of the relevance of BOLEMA for research in Mathematics Education at the national and international levels, this article presents a qualitative, bibliographic, and exploratory research concerning the areas and authors of the productions of articles approved from 1985 to 2021, with a total of 1,159 published articles, in order to contribute to the identification of the likely collectives of thought and the main authors in this scenario of knowledge diffusion. As a result, BOLEMA's co-authorship network is presented and we hope that this work can contribute to the scientific community to facilitate new connections between authors who publish similar studies, thus strengthening scientific production, in addition to subsidizing other researchers’ knowledge about authors and their research topics, thus fostering the emergence of new co-authorship partnerships and the increase in knowledge diffusion circles.

Co-authorship networks; Mathematics Education; Gephi; BOLEMA