Vol. 20 No. 1 (2021): Revista UIS Ingenierías
Articles

Agronomy research co-authorship networks in agricultural innovation systems

Efrén Romero-Riaño
Universidad Autonoma de Bucaramanga
Cesar Darío Guerrero-Santander
Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga
Hugo Ernesto Martínez-Ardila
Universidad Industrial de Santander

Published 2020-11-10

Keywords

  • agricultural innovation systems,
  • collaboration,
  • social network analysis,
  • bibliometrics,
  • coauthorship,
  • scientific visualization,
  • VOS viewer,
  • UCINET
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How to Cite

Romero-Riaño, E., Guerrero-Santander, C. D., & Martínez-Ardila, H. E. (2020). Agronomy research co-authorship networks in agricultural innovation systems. Revista UIS Ingenierías, 20(1), 161–176. https://doi.org/10.18273/revuin.v20n1-2021015

Abstract

Increasingly, Agricultural Innovation Systems, AIS, have been recognized as fundamentals pathways for agricultural science impact. This new thinking focuses on innovation, not as the end of pipe outcome of knowledge transfer, but as a continuous process of social, technical and scientific collaboration at regional and higherlevel systems that impacts on productivity and innovation performance. This paper surveys the agricultural innovation system in Colombia. We analyze collaboration between authors, institutions and countries from the perspective of social network analysis to introduce a descriptive review of the scientific collaboration in terms of links (discipline structure) and nodes (actors). A mixed methodology is implemented based on co-authorship bibliometric mapping using VOS VIEWER and social network analysis based on the software UCINET. Whereas exogenous authors and institutions are the most connected in terms of interaction, they have lower influence than endogenous authors.

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