Specialists in interest and collaboration networks, training and dissemination of knowledge in the field of assisted reproduction in Brazil

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This text is related to the way knowledge is disseminated in publications co-authored by specialists in assisted reproduction, it analyzes how connections between specialists in clinics and laboratories in Brazil are built. It is the result of research that aimed to identify and analyze collaborative networks in co-authorship between professionals in the area of reproduction linked to the Brazilian Society of Human Reproduction (SBRH). The data are from publications in the journal Produção & Climatério , from 2000 to 2016, and which are updated in other sources of multi-site research , found on the websites of assisted reproduction clinics affiliated to the Latin American Network of Assisted Reproduction. To this end, we chose to work with co-authorship networks that were organized into text files, with the help of software ( UCInet and Pajek ). This allowed us to visualize how the network is configured, which is made up of 1,064 specialists, who are concentrated in the Southeast region with relevance to the South and Midwest regions. It allowed to perceive the profile of sex and the dynamics that occur with the connections of different specialties in the field of assisted reproduction in the laboratory and what is its relevance for the production of knowledge, considering how it is disseminated and connected with other contexts from different sources, of our research.

DOI: 10.56238/pacfdnsv1-064