Ethnic-racial Issues in Dimensions: data on production, use and online attention

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Sarah Rúbia de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Araújo, Ronaldo Ferreira de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Encontros Bibli
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/78822
• topic: Relações étnico-raciais; Bibliometria; Altmetria; Ethnic-racial relations; Bibliometrics; Altmetrics

Objective: Information studies with an emphasis on ethnic-racial themes in Information Science research are still incipient, especially in the field of bibliometric studies. The article aims to investigate the production and use of scientific knowledge in the research field of racial studies through bibliometric and altmetric indicators. Methods: The research has an exploratory approach, with quantitative and descriptive analyzes of 4,000 records and their citation data, which retrieved from the Dimensions database based on searches for the descriptors 'Afro-Brazilians' and 'Afro-Americans'. Thematic orientation for the co-occurrence of terms was carried out in VOSviewer and the altmetric data processed via the Altmetric API using the Python programming language. Results: The publications cover the period between 1970 and 2020. On Afro-Brazilians, were identified discussions about topics related to teaching, education, quotas in universities and representation of black women in literature. As for African-Americans, the themes revolve around the health of the black population and racial disparities with other ethnic groups. The online attention of the articles was measured by altmetric data and citations, there was a great contrast between publications about the two populations. Conclusions: The data indicate that ethnic-racial themes attract interest inside and outside the academy, and have the potential to be addressed from multiple perspectives, in the most diverse academic fields. Black Librarianship professionals and Information Science researchers have a vast field to carry out research and build decolonized and anti-racist scientific knowledge.