  Scientific publishing conveys the outputs of an academic or research
activity, in this sense; it also reflects the efforts and issues in which
people engage. To identify potential collaborative networks one of the simplest
approaches is to leverage the co-authorship relations. In this approach,
semantic and hierarchic relationships defined by a Knowledge Organization
System are used in order to improve the system's ability to recommend potential
networks beyond the lexical or syntactic analysis of the topics or concepts
that are of interest to academics.
