ACADEMIC PROFILE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCHERS IN BRAZIL: lattes platform indicators

• Autor(a) principal: Gonçalves, André Vinícius
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Karpinski, Cezar, Araújo, Gustavo Medeiros de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Information Science
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/bjis/article/view/11352
• topic: Interdisciplinarity; Information Sciense; Epistemology; Lattes Platform; Interdisciplinaridade; Ciência da Informação; Epistemologia; Plataforma Lattes

Interdisciplinarity is constituted as an inclusive practice of knowledge aiming at the construction of new scientific knowledge or that meet the social demand of varied professional profiles and multiple competences. Therefore, the objective is to analyze the academic profile of researchers working in the area with regard to the interdisciplinary possibilities that are presented to Information Science. It is a descriptive research and a quantitative approach based on the indicators of the areas of activity contained in the Lattes Platform. 2,533 researchers' curricula were evaluated, considering academic background and area of expertise. As a result, the research shows that the area of Applied Social Sciences is the one with the largest number of researchers working in Information Science, both in undergraduate and graduate courses. In the disciplinary training of researchers, research shows that Librarianship is the most representative undergraduate course with 21.97%, followed by History 8.16%, Computing 6.85%, Engineering 6.38%, Administration 6.28% and Social Communication 6.11%. Through the analysis by area of activity, it was possible to conclude that Administration, Communication, Computer Science, Education and History are the areas of greatest interaction with Information Science. Thus, the research finds that, in the current scenario, Information Science has a strong relationship with other areas of knowledge and that, through interdisciplinary possibilities, influences and is influenced in the epistemological development of the human, social and computational sciences.