The contribution of B. Dervin to the Brazilian Information Science research
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1518-2924.2009v14n28p57Keywords:
Brenda Dervin, Brazilian research in Information Science, BibliometricsAbstract
This article presents the results of a research to see the impact of Dervin in the Brazilian production in Information Science. It was looked citations to the author on all articles published in seven Brazilian journals, between the years 2003 at 2007. Dervin is cited in 27 of the 872 articles analyzed. From the 19,577 bibliographic references of these articles, 42 are Dervin’s works. These references were analyzed to identify the frequency of each Dervin’s work cited, year, language, kind and cases of co-authorship. The citing articles were analyzed in terms of thematic and institutional origin of the authors. Finally, it examined the importance of the citation to the author for the discussions in citing articles. Some results are: the most cited work, Information needs and uses, had 16 references; the author’s greatest contribution is in the information user studies; the Brazilian institution that the most cited is the UFMG; the most important kind of citation is the conceptual citation.
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