Some strategies to give visibility to your scientific community from the library: the case of the CTBTO

The CTBTO Library's main goal is to support novel strategy development by experts, ensuring sources of reliable information as well as keeping up to date the community with the latest research about the four main monitoring technologies of the verification regime by providing access to technical and scientific databases to the entire PTS. The CTBTO Library, as part of the Capacity Building Section, IDC Division (IDC/CBT), was tasked to develop a map of knowledge to understand accurately the specific information needed by the users, as well as to learn how CTBTO experts communicated with the scientific community. One of the best tools of Bibliometrics in Library Science to address this challenge is the social network analysis approach. This framework allows for identifying how the knowledge grows and learning when, how and who has established connections. The network visualization represents with bubbles the number of publications with links, direct connection and interaction in co-authorship, on the same organization or with many others every time one author recognizes its affiliation; countries in this analysis represent the collaboration between CTBTO State Signatories. This study provides insights where CTBTO may develop capacities with other institutions in terms of seismic, hydroacoustic, infrasound and radionuclide monitoring technologies to achieve its goal.