Research academic groups form nets that connect persons, institutions, agencies, enterprises, whose shared relations have the scope to produce knowledge. In that way, to produce knowledge in collaboration, to write and to publish in co-authoship, is a part of researchers' activity when working in nets given rise from one or more academic groups of inquiry. Such an activity was scrutinized through social networks analysis (SNA), an area of studies and a technique of investigation, a set of theories, models and applications seriously wrapped with the alteration of standards in the forms of producing knowledge and consequently with the interactions and inter-relations that affect the persons while producing knowledge in networks. While studying research networks evaluation, inquiry supported by the Brazilian National Council of Research, CNPQ, some peculiarities on the production of knowledge in Education seen in contrast with other areas of knowledge were detected and are presented and discussed in this text.
Knowledge production; Evaluation; Scientific research networks; Education