BRAZILIAN RESEARCH DIMENSIONS OF THE INTERDOMAIN IN METRIC STUDIES OF INFORMATION IN MEDICINE

• Grant number: 13/16171-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: November 01, 2013
• End date: March 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Information Science - Library and Information Science
• Principal Investigator: Leilah Santiago Bufrem
• Grantee: Juliana Lazzarotto Freitas
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Marília. Marília , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/20732-1 - Dimensiones metodológicas de la investigación en estudios métricos, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

This study considers Metric Studies of Information as an inter-domain that can be established between Information Science (IS) and other different knowledge fields, where the knowledge generated depends on the amalgamation of knowledge from both fields.It also considers the metric studies of information as a field that becomes its institutionalization in Brazil. It identifies the scientific literature of this inter-domain in order to understand the relational configurations between Information Science and Medicine by Metric Studies of Information. It presents the research question: How can be established and materialized the relation between IS and Medicine through Metric Studies of Information? The study aims to recognize theoretically and empirically how the relationships represented by the inter-domain of Metric Studies of Information between IS and Medicine are established and materialized. It argues about the need to visualize, as empirical practice, the IS meta-scientific potential, in particular, its investigative aspect in the field of Metric Studies of Information. It opts for Medicine to apply and consolidate the inter-domain concept, not only for the social relevance of this field and the significant volume of its scientific production, but, in particular, for its contributions to the development of the early research that consolidated the use of scientific information sources in Brazil. It uses as the analysis corpus a collection of 132 articles, extracted from Scopus database, produced by the most representative brazilian authors of the inter-domain materialized by the mentioned fields. The selection of these authors was based on previous studies: Grácio and Oliveira (2012), Mattos and Job (2008) and Freitas (2014). As a methodological choice, the study adopts three options, namely: the content analysis of the articles, the questionnaire technique applied to the most productive authors, that is, the representatives agents of this inter-domain, to understand their perceptions of the research activities they have been performing under the Metric Studies of Information, and also the bibliometric analysis, that allows us to observe the more evident authors and journals of the corpus and relationship between citing and cited authors and journals and the approximations between authors, approaches and thematics. The content analysis is based on criteria formulated from the quadruple methodological practice model, postulated by Bruyne Herman and Schoutheete (1977), which brings together the epistemological, theoretical, morphological and technical poles, and the complementary dimensions of research: the ethical and the political, proposed by Bufrem (2013). It confronts scientific periodical authors' production with their responses to the questionnaire to analyze whether their speeches correspond to what they actually produce. It finally considers that an inter-domain is a cooperation opportunity between fields and it presents knowledge production and organization analytical possibilities promoted by IS as a way to contribute to the meta research realizations in different domains.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

FREITAS, Juliana Lazzarotto. Brazilian research dimensions of the interdomain in metric studies of information in medicine. 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências. Marília Marília.