The growth of Brazilian metrics literature (original) (raw)
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2008
It accomplishes a bibliometric analysis of the journal ‘Ciencia da Informacao’, one of the issues with highest visibility in the Librarianship and Information Science field in Brazil. This study is accomplished aiming to establish the quantification of a serie of indicators which allows it to configurates an overview of the scientific production registered during the period of 2000-2004. Among the analyzed elements they are stand out: authorship, citation of authors and sources, production and average life of the references.
Scientometrics, 2006
SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library on Line, www.scielo.bireme.br) is a program aimed at offering a core of Brazilian Scientific Journals in an open access mode at internet. This initiative has been followed by other Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian countries. Along with the development of the open accessed electronic library, a complementary scientometric/bibliometric database has been set up which permit to retrieve citation data of more than 40,000 articles. The robustness that this database has now achieved allows one to make important studies which were not possible before, using only the international Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) database.
Production and impact of Brazilian papers in Library and Information Science journals (1986-2015)
2019
This paper aims to carry out a diachronic analysis of Brazilian scientific productivity in the Library and Information Science field as indexed by the Scopus database for the period 1986-2015. We also analyze the main journals that publish Brazilian contributions, compare the impact of Brazilian production between papers published in Latin language journals and those in English, and identify the primary language of Brazilian papers and the main collaborating countries. We carried out a search on Brazilian scientific productivity in the analyzed field in the Scopus database for the studied period. Then, through a manual filter, we identified a corpus of 1,195 papers. Of the 90 journals identified, 26 journals were considered the main venues for Brazilian Library and Information Science research. These were grouped using multivariate cluster analysis. The main collaborating countries were grouped based on normalized values of co-authorship using Salton's cosine measure. Since 2006...
Development of bibliometrics in Colombia
The literature on bibliometrics published by Colombian and foreign authors who selected Colombian academic journals or events held in the country to communicate their findings is analyzed. The publications by Colombian researchers published abroad were also collected and analyzed. The type of documents used by researchers, the journals most used, and the languages used for communicating their findings were also studied. The growth of the literature, the network of co-authorships, the more productive authors, and scientific fields most researched were also analyzed. It was found 255 papers were published in academic journals, most of them in Spanish language; 77% of authors have published just one document, while 23% of them made between 2 and 24 contributions. The production of this kind of literature is concentrated in the last decade as well as the collabortion behavior of authors. The literature is growing in an exponential form at a rate of 20% per year and doubling in size every 4 years. Network analysis identified six research groups in the country.
Collnet Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management, 2010
Wilson, Concépcion (Australia) Zeyuan, Liu (China) COLLNET JOURNAL OF SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management is a half yearly publication, aimed at publishing recent research outcome on the subject of Scientometrics and Information Management and bringing it to the notice of the Information Professionals and Researchers the world over. COLLNET is a global interdisciplinary research network under the title "Collaboration in Science and in Technology" (www.collnet.de).
Bibliometrics of Bibliometrics: A Research Topic in the Mirror of Bibliometric Indicators
2006
This exploratory study tries to get insights on one way of exteriorizing the publication activity of bibliometricians and how such activity is taken into consideration within the scientific community. As we thought in advance, the evidence shows that the USA is the most productive, most cited and most collaborative publisher. The neighbourhood is a ground to collaborate, like Canada or Mexico with the USA, and Belgium with the Netherlands. The most visible topics are small-world networks and webometrics. Este estudio exploratorio intenta echar un vistazo sobre una forma de exteriorización de publicaciones de bibliometristas y cómo tal actividad es considerada dentro de la comunidad científica. Como lo pensamos de antemano, la evidencia muestra que los EEUU son los más productivos, el más citado y el más colaborador en bibliometría. Los vecinos son buenos colaboradores, como Canadá o México con los EEUU y Bélgica con los Países Bajos. Los temas más visibles son las redes de pequeño m...
The literature of bibliometrics, scientometrics, and informetrics
Scientometrics, 2001
Since Vassily V. Nalimov coined the term 'scientometrics' in the 1960s, this term has grown in popularity and is used to describe the study of science: growth, structure, interrelationships and productivity. Scientometrics is related to and has overlapping interests with bibliometrics and informetrics. The terms bibliometrics, scientometrics, and informetrics refer to component fields related to the study of the dynamics of disciplines as reflected in the production of their literature. Areas of study range from charting changes in the output of a scholarly field through time and across countries, to the library collection problem of maintaining control of the output, and to the low publication productivity of most researchers. These terms are used to describe similar and overlapping methodologies. The origins and historical survey of the development of each of these terms are presented. Profiles of the usage of each of these terms over time are presented, using an appropriate subject category of databases on the DIALOG information service. Various definitions of each of the terms are provided from an examination of the literature. The size of the overall literature of these fields is determined and the growth and stabilisation of both the dissertation and non-dissertation literature are shown. A listing of the top journals in the three fields are given, as well as a list of the major reviews and bibliographies that have been published over the years.
A scientometric analysis of Embrapa's Brazil web of science articles from 1977 to 2006
2009
This article studies, using the technique of bibliometrical analysis, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation Embrapa’s research centers participation in the journals that were indexed in the Web of Science (WOS) database, from 1977 to 2006. First we analyze the performance of the research centers, followed by the journals which published these articles and finally the partnerships with the institutions that had carried out this scientific work with Embrapa. The results indicated that Embrapa is among the top ten Brazilian institutions to lead in the volume of scientific articles published in indexed WOS journals. They also indicate the relevance of the adoption of a goals and results system by an institution of Sc,T&I and the need to select strategies to establish partnerships, select journals in accordance with the institutional stated mission and standardize theirs authors affiliations, in order to facilitate the identification and improve their scores. Index Terms Scientomet...