Mapping Brazilian Information Science scientific production on Memory and Forgetfulness

• Autor(a) principal: Moret, Ronald Tavares Leão
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Mata, Marta Leandro da, Costa, Rosa da Penha Ferreira da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: InCID
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/incid/article/view/188970
• topic: Memória; Esquecimento; Ciência da Informação; memory; forgetfulness; Information science

The general objective of this study is to map the scientific production on “memory” and “forgetfulness” in the Brazilian literature on Information Science. Its specific objectives aim to find the titles of these studies, assess their main publication channels and sources, investigate their origin, list the main authors on those themes, and specify the most productive institutions and regions on the subject. Regarding our methodological procedures, this is a descriptive, quantitative, and basic study, using as a parameter the Base de Dados Referencial de Artigos de Periódicos em Ciência da Informação (Reference Database of Articles on Information Science Periodicals). Thus, we obtained an overview of the scientific production on information science related to the integration of the themes “memory” and “forgetfulness” from the following categorization: production titles, publication channels and sources, origin, authors, and most productive regions and institutions. Thus, we found that the interconnected approach of “memory” and “forgetfulness” within information science has overcome its discovery phase and entered na exploratory one, thus progressively decentralizing production from the Rio-São Paulo axis by intra- and inter-institutional co-authorship networks, especially from researchers from institutions in the Brazilian South and Northeast. These themes are quantitatively expanding publications to institutionalize “forgetfulness” as another face of “memory” subarea coin within discussions in information science.