"A produção científica brasileira em odontologia e sua visibilidade nacional e internacional" / The brazilian scientific production in dentistry and its national and international visibility

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The subject of scientific production is studied in this paper under the focusing of the visibility of scientific knowledge produced by Brazilian authors of the dentistry area as published as journals articles. Being understood as visibility the reference position that a periodical has in relation to its indexing in renowned national and international databases, a search was made in order to identify where the dentistry authors are being published and what would be the impact caused by the production generated before the scientific community. Method: This study comprised the period of four years having as basis the years from 2000 to 2003. The criteria adopted for the authors research used as sample for the study was the production of concomitant articles in brazilian journals - Brazilian Dental Journal, of the Dental Foundation of Ribeirão Preto and Brazilian Oral Research, of the Brazilian Society of Dental Research - the only two indexed in the international Medline database of the National Library od Medicine. In this manner the sample of the paper consists of 90 authors. The Brazilian Bibliography of Dentistry and Medline database, by means of PubMed, were the information resources used for the recovery of the national and international scientific production from authors of sample in analysed period. To check the international visibility of articles from Brazilian authors published in the foreign journals, being considered the citation index of the articles mentioned, as from a survey made at the Web of Science, of the International Institute for Scientific Information. In terms of national visibility, the SciELO database doesn´t supply statistical reports that make possible to identify by author the number of times that a given article was named by other authors in this parameter, what has made unable the analysis of such item in this paper. Results: In the analyzed period, 1278 authorships records were recovered, from which 855 concerning articles published in national magazines and 423 concerning publications in international journals. Some of the results of this study that outstands were: authors in the dentistry area appear as medium sized and big producers, without any significant difference in being published in Brazil or abroad. Concernig the institutional affiliation of the sample authors, most of them belong to the State Universities of Higher Education located in the Southeast region of Brazil, mainly from UNICAMP, USP and UNESP. Concernig the cited articles mentioned, it was observed that from the 254 articles published in international journals, 174 (68,50%) were mentioned by other authors, according to data obtained at the Web of Science using the Social Citation Index. The impact factor the international journals has been located by the Journal Citation Report (JRC) of 2004 and varied from 0,692 to 1,569

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bibliometry bibliometria odontologia scientific production indicators scientometry cienciometria indicadores de produção científica fator de impacto produção científica impact factor scientific production

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