World scientific production in information literacy: analysis of indexed documents in Web of Science

• Autor(a) principal: De Lucca, Djuli Machado
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Neubert, Patricia da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Em Questão (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/96569
• topic: Competência em Informação; Produção Científica; Bibliometria; Web of Science.; Information Literacy; Scientific Production; Web of Science.

This is a research that comprises the measurement of scientific production on information literacy worldwide, that is suitable for obtaining indicators about the scientific activity of the discipline. Analyzes the world scientific production of information literacy indexed in Web of Science, from 1957 to 2017. The study's objectives are: a) identify the standards of scientific production of information literacy, in what it refers to type of publishing and their access model, year, citation, language, area and publication vehicles and, b) identify the origin of the published documents, based on authorship, institutional link and the nationality of the author. The research universe consists of the documents indexed in Web of Science referred to Information Literacy, in all formats and languages published until 2017, totaling 6.634 documents. The results demonstrate the exponential growth of the number of documents of the theme in the last decade, concentrating 74.85% of the total documents, with the predominance of publications in the format of articles (62.69%), published in English (90.43%) in the areas Information Science (34.96%) and education (34%), by authors from 112 countries. In the end, it signals the numerical and geographical expansion in the amount of documents published and indexed on Information Literacy in the Web of Science.