Aplicação do capital científico do tipo objetivado e puro na Base de Dados em Ciência da Informação

Abstract

Information Science is a scientific field, a relational space composed by two or more agents and/or institutions, which presents singularities, as it provides elements that can be employed to interpret a certain reality. This research has as general objective to evaluate, through Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology, especially scientific capital of the objectified type and scientific capital of the pure type, the scientific production on "Information Management" and "Knowledge Management" related to the articles that were published by the researchers and indexed in the Information Science Database. As methodological procedures, to identify the Research Elite, a total of 177 articles were analyzed and 337 researchers were identified. Extracting the square root of this value, the result is a total of 18.3 researchers, who published between 3 and 17 studies, in a total of 20 researchers. The Research Front was determined from the articles with no self-quotation, summing up to 74 articles. In this set of articles, 1910 references were presented and 2002 quoted researchers were verified. Then, the same criteria applied to determine the Research Elite was employed, resulting in a total of 44.7 researchers, who received between 5 and 54 quotes, summing up to 55 researchers. As a result, it was identified that some of the researchers present in the Research Elite remained present in the Research Front. Finally, it is important to highlight that scientific articles are elaborated from an object of study inserted in a certain relational space.