A produção brasileira de teses e dissertações em Ciência da Informação: um panorama temático e quantitativo dos anos de 2012 a 2016.

Abstract

Scientific production in the diverse areas of knowledge is growing in recent years. In view of this perspective, this research has sought to present a quantitative and thematic panorama of the pos-graduation in information science in Brazil as regards theses and dissertations (of the Academic Master courses) in the period that corresponds to the years of 2012 to 2016, in the national context. I proposed as objective: to analyze the Brazilian production of theses and dissertations in information science in the period from 2012 to 2016. To categorize the subjects of theses and sets were used the menus of ANCIB working groups. The data collection was carried out in the digital libraries of theses and dissertations (BDTD’s), that are part of the Brazilian Institute in Science and Technology (IBICT), in the electronic publishing system of theses and dissertations (you), in the institutional repositories, in the electronic portals of the graduate programs in information science and the platform to the termite. As a result, 1183 documents were recovered, 291 theses and 892 dissertations. The thematic management of information and knowledge and organization and representation of information are the ones that have the largest number of theses and dissertation at national level. The results demonstrate the Southeast region as the holder of the largest number of theses and dissertation, (601) representing more than 50% of total production.