Analysis of the intellectual influences on scientific production in the Information Science area: a study on the productivity grants in research (PQ-CNPq)

• Autor(a) principal: Bufrem, Leilah Santiago
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Silva, Fábio Mascarenhas e, Sobral, Natanael Vitor
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Em Questão (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/68087
• topic: Produtividade em Pesquisa. Ciência da Informação. Análise de Citações. Influências Intelectuais. Cientometria.; Research Productivity. Information Science. Citation Analysis. Intellectual Influences. Scientometrics.

This article investigates the intellectual bases of productivity grants in research of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (PQ-CNPq) of the Information Science area through its citations. To compose the corpus of this study, it elects Referential Base of Journal Articles in Information Science, considering the time frame from 1972 to 2015. It adopts as methodological procedures: 1) identification of the productivity grants in research (Information Science); 2) data collection in Referential Base of Journal Articles in Information Science (records plus references); 3) data processing, through its standardization, listing and classification using the VantagePoint software; and 4) analysis and presentation of relationships between citing parties, cited parties and themes. It features among the top results works by Castells (1999), Dahlberg (1978), Wersig (1993) and Meadows (1999) as the most referenced by the investigated researchers. By selecting the 35 most cited works, it notes that approximately two thirds are of foreign origin, which shows the weight of the international literature as a reference group. It notes that 11 of the 35 most cited works (31.4%) are from productivity grants in research (Information Science) itself, and 60.6% of the citations of these works are carried out by scholarship congeners, which suggests the existence of mutual recognition among peers. Finally, it observes that Technology of Information and Communication, Library, Indexing and Bibliometry are the most representative themes, and the work by Dahlberg (1978) is the most influential among studies related to Ontologies and Knowledge Organization.