The presence of brazilian scientific production in the knowledge organization journal on 21st century

Abstract

Introduction: The Knowledge Organization journal is today one of the main vehicles of scientific communication with regard to Knowledge Organization (OC) issues. Objetive: Thus, it was considered relevant to analyze how the Brazilian context is presented in these communications, verifying which authors and institutions are most productive, as well as frequency of publications, national coauthors and international collaborations. Methodology: Through the analysis of the numbers published in the period 2001-2018, it was possible to identify a strong presence of articles of Brazilian authorship, with a total of 51 productions. Results: Was found a community led by Professors José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Daniel Martínez-Ávila, Fábio de Assis Pinho and Renato Rocha de Souza, who are responsible for 28% of all publications in this period, was also noticed. The most productive institutions are the Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP and the Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG, institutions that had at least one author affiliated in half of the institutional implications. There is also a strong growth in the number of articles in the most recent years, especially in 2012 and 2014 onwards, responsible for almost 85% of the total number of Brazilian publications in the journal. Relative to national coauthories, a strong group was noticed worried about the ethical and social questions in knowledge organization, studies in documentary languages, aspects relative to information retrieval, semantic web, ontologies, beside others. Regarding international co-authoring, emphasis is placed on thematic interest groups, such as ethical and social dimensions, bibliometric aspects, interlocution with the exact sciences and technologies, among others. Conclusions: The leadership of the group of authors confirms that the journal is open on topics such as ethical and social aspects of OC, as well as technological perspectives in the context of this domain. In addition, a strong incidence of affiliated articles between UNESP and UFMG has revealed a specificity and a research tradition of these two universities on which knowledge organization is based.