The brasilian scientific production in the journal Scientificmetrics from 1978 to 2006

• Autor(a) principal: Mattos, Ana Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Job, Ivone
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Encontros Bibli
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/1518-2924.2008v13n26p47
• topic: Produção científica; Brasil; Revista científica; Scientometrics; Scientific production; Brazil; Journal; Scientometrics

The aim this paper is to reveal the scientific production of Brazilian researchers who had their articles published in the journal Scientometrics from 1978 to 2006. The papers recovered were categorized by type of authorship, authors’ affiliation and institutional cooperation, most productive authors, year of publication, and number of times the article was cited. The data analyzed reveal: (a) preference for shared authorship; (b) predominant institutional affiliation in universities and public institutes; (c) most productive authors were from the biological and health areas; (d) most articles were published in 1998 and 2006; and (e) five articles had from 10 to 25 citations. The research concluded that the participation the Brazilians researchers’ in the publication is scarce, the international cooperation for publication is inexpressive, and it is possible conclude too the lack to researchers in the field of CI among the most productive authors.