Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação da Universidade Federal da Páraíba: uma análise da produção científica dos egressos

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the scientific production of graduates of the Graduate Program in Information Science at the Federal University of Paraiba (PPGCI), published in scientific journals between the years 2008 to 2011. It consists of a research nature bibliographic, documentary and descriptive. Works with a total of nine graduates, delimited by the scientific production in the period marked. It is guided in qualitative methodological approach with quantitative contribution. As an instrument of data collection, uses graduates of the curriculum lattes available in Lattes Platform of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). For data analysis, using analysis by categories. As a result, the profile of the graduates surveyed with regard to gender, training, placement with the PPGCI line of research, the date of the dissertation, the average time to complete the master's and professional performance of graduates. Notes about the profile of graduates, the majority are female, from courses in librarianship, conveyed to the Line of Memory Research, Organization, Access and Use of Information, with the average completion time of the Masters one year and seven months. Evidence, though, that most graduates of PPGCI acts as a teacher in higher education institutions. Outlines the scientific production of graduates, conveyed in scientific journals, based on the following categories: publications in journals, types of publications, thematic publications and co-authorship. It concludes the scientific evidence that graduates of the broadcast in scientific journals, is manifested very tentatively, considering that nine of the graduates surveyed only two graduates, from the Library, have continuously published in scientific journals.