Obituários acadêmicos: análise de homenagens póstumas da ciência em periódicos científicos

Maria Cristina Piumbato Innocentini Hayashi

doi:10.18225/ci.inf.v50i2.5253

Authors

Maria Cristina Piumbato Innocentini Hayashi Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Ciências da Informação. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1250-3767

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18225/ci.inf.v50i2.5253

Keywords:

Academic obituaries, Information Science, Sociology of Science, Bibliometrics.

Abstract

Obituaries have been studied in the literary, journalistic and sociological fields through analyzes that point to issues
related to social markers of gender, class, ethnicity and age differences. However, studies that analyze academic
obituaries published in scientific journals are still scarce in the area of Information Science, and in Brazil almost
nonexistent. In order to fill this gap, this article sought to answer the following questions: which categories should
comprise a model of analysis of academic obituaries, and how are they characterized when they are published in Brazilian
scientific journals? Theoretically the study is anchored in the fields of Information Science and Sociology of Science. As
a methodological resource, bibliometric and content analyzes were used. The analysis model was composed of a set
of indicators based on revealing categories of the profiles of the journal, the obituary, the person deceased and the obituarist
as well as the academic and personal attributes, values and virtues of the deceased academics. The analysis model was
applied to academic obituaries (n = 309) from eight areas of knowledge published between 2009 and 2019 in journals (n = 94)
in the SciELO eletronic library. The results showed the innumerous particularities of the life and work of the persons deceased,
offering a revealing portrait of what is valued by the academic community and area of knowledge in which they are inscribed.

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Author Biography

Maria Cristina Piumbato Innocentini Hayashi, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Ciências da Informação.

Doutora em Educação pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) – SP - Brasil. Professora da Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) - São Carlos, SP - Brasil. Bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa do Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq).

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