Climate change: Profile, behavior and trends in Brazilian academia from the perspective of social network analysis
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https://doi.org/10.36517/contextus.2026.95655Keywords:
climate change, Scientific production, Brazilian journals, SPELL, SNAAbstract
Background: Climate change is one of the most urgent problems faced by societies around the world, and therefore, climate change is seen as one of the great global challenges of the 21st century. Therefore, it is of fundamental importance to expand scientific knowledge about the topic of climate change in Brazil, and metric studies, through sociometry or social network analysis (SNA), are of great importance and value for this, as they provide opportunities and enable the understanding and comprehension of the structures and formations of networks of the actors involved in the process of constructing academic knowledge on the subject of climate change.
Purpose: To investigate the profile, behavior and trend of the topic of climate change in Brazilian academia, from the perspective of the SPELL database and from the perspective of the SNA.
Method: Social network analysis was used in 176 articles identified on the topic of climate change.
Results: 2023 was the most central period; GeAS was the most dominant journal; José Célio Silveira Andrade was the most influential author; USP was the most relevant HEI; and sustainability, sustainable development, global warming, tourism, innovation, public policies, environment, performance, environmental education, adaptation, climate risks and clean development mechanism (CDM) were the most central keywords.
Conclusions: In a macro sense, this research concludes by highlighting the theme of climate change from the perspective of social network analysis, investigating the structure and formation of the networks of actors involved in the process of construction and creation of scientific value regarding this important subject, thus contributing to its better understanding and, simultaneously, comprehension, consequently influencing its evolution in the academic literature of Brazil.
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