Bibliometrics in Enancib's WG 11 – Information & Health

• Autor(a) principal: Vogel, Michely Jabala Mamede
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: RECIIS (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/2394
• topic: Bibliometrics; S&T indicators; Citation analysis; Enancib’s WG 11; Information and health.; Bibliometría; Indicadores de C & T; Análisis de citas; GT 11 del Enancib; Informacion y salud.; Bibliometria; Indicadores de C&T; Análise de citação; GT 11 do Enancib; Informação e Saúde.

In Enancib – Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa em Ciência da Informação (National information science research conference), the Workgroup (WG) 11 - Information & Health, created in 2011, is responsible for the study of information theories, methods, structures, and processes in different health contexts. This article aims to present works of the WG 11 that point out bibliometrics as its theoretical-methodological contribution, in order to know some characteristics of that community based on quantitative studies in this phase. The research has descriptive and bibliometric approach, based on a search in Benancib (from 2011 to 2016) and in the annals of Enancib (from 2017 to 2019). The Tesauro Brasileiro de Ciência da Informação (Brazilian Thesaurus of Information Science) was consulted to select the terms. Twenty-three papers, 40 authors, 60 keywords and 385 references were found. The average life based on literature obsolescence from 2005 was 14 years. We can see that bibliometrics and metric studies in the works of the WG 11 are often mentioned, which could explain the possible lack of definition and discussion of such methods. This study points out the need to combine it with other methodologies to contextualize the indicators presented.