<b>Congress ANPCONT: descriptive and evaluative bibliometric analysis of the articles published from 2007 to 2011</b> - doi: 10.4025/enfoque.v31i3.16946

Abstract

The analysis of congresses, scientific journals and scientific production is held in different areas of science, with objective of understanding the authors’ profile, the production characteristics or evaluate those qualities. Despite using different methods and tools, the objectives commonly propose to develop the science and characterization of the production in different areas. This paper is aimed with two objectives related to two different areas of the bibliometrics, evaluative and descriptive, characterizing its differential. The general objective consists in the analysis and understanding of the characteristics of the works published in the Congress ANPCONT, and the specific objectives are the showing of the authors’ profile, of the productions and use the of the references. The methods used are bibliometrics and, for the descriptive analysis it is applied the Lotka Law, which determines the productivity of the authors. For the evaluative analysis it is applied the study of the typology of the references used. As a result, in respect to the authors profile, thy are, in general, connected to the academy, professors and doctors, with predominance of author from Universidade de São Paulo, Fucape Business School and Universidade Regional de Blumenau. In respect to the descriptive analysis, the production does not adjust to the Lotka Law, and in respect to the evaluative analysis is observed that there is a predominance of use of international papers in the researches. It is concluded that the production demonstrated a development during the years, and some authors, universities and states are highlighted in the congress production.