Historical and Epistemological Studies of Information Science in Brazil:approach based on indicators in the annals of ENANCIB

abordagem a partir dos indicadores nos anais do ENANCIB

Abstract

Scientific production indicators are important elements for understanding the dynamics of information knowledge. From this perspective, it aims to map reference authors in Information Science based on publications in the annals of GT1 of the Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa em Ciência da Informação (ENANCIB). It sought to identify the bibliographic couplings of these authors, presents clusters of authors/references from the analyzed corpus and the co-occurrence of keywords. The research corpus was constituted through the extraction of data from expanded abstracts and complete communications published between 2018 and 2023. The following elements were extracted: type of research, name of the first author, title, keywords, summary and the references. 109 documents were analyzed and 2369 references were extracted. Harold Borko and Tefko Saracevic and their respective research “Information Science: What is it?” (1968) and “Ciência da Informação: origem, evolução e relações” (1996) presented greater representation, referenced at 10.09% of the analyzed production. Rafael Capurro, with “Epistemologia e Ciência da Informação” (2003), and Tefko Saracevic, also with “Ciência da Informação: origem, evolução e relações” (1996), were the authors referenced in 9.17% of the research universe . The production analysis also resulted in two clusters, one with 45 publications, and the other with 22 publications. The keyword “Information Science” was the term with the highest occurrence, totaling 22.02% of the corpus of documents, followed by the terms “Epistemology”, with 10.09% and “Interdisciplinarity”, with 7.34% of the total. cluster composition. The most referenced works, both identified singularly and through bibliographic coupling, are aligned with the scope of ENANCIB's GT1.