Researchers’ visibility in the journal Scientometrics from a brazilian perspective: a co-citation study

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Ely Francina Tannuri de
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Grácio, Maria Cláudia Cabrini
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Em Questão (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/33044
• topic: Estudos métricos. Visibilidade. Pesquisador brasileiro. Scientometrics (Periódico). Análise de citação e cocitação.; Estudos bibliométricos; Metric studies. Brazilian researcher. Visibility. Scientometrics (Journal). Citation and co-citation analysis.

This research aims at verifying the authors who have given basis to the brazilian researches internationally inserted in the area of Bibliometrics and Scientometrics through the analysis of citation and co-citation of the brazilian articles published in the journal Scientometrics. We used the Scopus data base, with the terms Scientometrics in source title and Brasil or Brazil in affiliation country. We found 53 articles, with 741 references and 19 authors cited 3 or more times. In general, the researchers come from the biologic and health areas. Using the Ucinet software, we build the co-citation network and calculated its indicators. We calculated the co-citation normalized index. The density and average of normalized degree centrality were 65,5%. We concluded the research highlighting the significant presence of brazilians (32%) and the dialogicity occurring between cited Brazilians and foreigners within a balance, where brazilians already dialog with renowned international researchers of the Bibliometrics and Scientometrics area.