The number of studies on social networks has increased in recent years. Social scientists, researchers, and scholars are questioning the ability and power of so-called networking in relationships between the actors of a network and the benefits of these relationships. This study aims to determine which institutional social networks formed as a result of the scientific production of the ANPCONT Conference. The research population included 334 articles published at the conference from 2013 to 2015. The final sample comprised 165 articles with 17 individual productions and 148 co-authorships in interconnected groups in scientific production. Tests were conducted using the Social Network Analysis software UCINET 6.531, Netdraw-Network Visualization Program 2.153, and Microsoft Office Excel 2010. The analysis shows that the more productive institutions were USP, UNISINOS, UFPR, and FURB. This study concludes that the network of cooperation and scientific production among institutions has weak links and sparse connections. However, the formation of a network of cooperation with "input/ output" central links was evident, among which, besides the aforementioned, the following institutions stood out: MACKENZIE, UFRJ, UFMG, UFU and UFGV, UNB/UFPB/ UFRN, and FGV.