Abstract
Abstract This study aims to analyze the intellectual foundation of the literature on knowledge organization published from 1972 to 2018 by authors enrolled in the Research Productivity Fellowship from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, in Brazil. The corpus of analysis is composed of 166 papers indexed in Base de Dados Referencial de Artigos de Periódicos em Ciência da Informação, which is a database that gathers the scientific literature published in Information Science journals in Brazil. It is an exploratory study that uses citation analysis as the methodological procedure, through author co-citation analysis and author bibliographic coupling. Fujita is identified as the most productive author, with 18 articles. Dahlberg is the most cited author, with 53 citations. The highest frequency of author co-citation is between Hjørland and Dahlberg; Tálamo and Kobashi. They are the seminal authors to the Brazilian scientists studied in this paper. The strongest relationships in the author bibliographic coupling network are between Lara and Bufrem, Lara and Guimarães, and Bufrem and Fujita. They cited 9 authors in common in the papers analyzed in this research. The conclusion is that there is an influence of European literature among the scientists addressed in this study. The results indicate the possibility of developing diachronic studies on the continuing influences of cited authors, especially from seminal authors, to analyze their permanence or transience over time.
Highlights
The study of a researcher’s intellectual foundation within a domain allows to uncover their theoretical, epistemological, and methodological influences
This research seeks to respond the question: what is the theoretical influence of the scientists enrolled in the Research Productivity Fellowship considering their scholarly literature on knowledge organization? this paper aims to analyze the intellectual foundation of the scientific literature on Knowledge Organization (KO), published from 1972 to 2018, by Information Science researchers enrolled in the Research Productivity Fellowship
This study analyzed the intellectual foundation of the scientific literature on KO published by researchers enrolled in the Research Productivity Fellowship from CNPq in Brazil
Summary
The study of a researcher’s intellectual foundation within a domain allows to uncover their theoretical, epistemological, and methodological influences. This kind of study embraces the analysis and description of a corpus of study composed by the references cited by the authors, providing an overview of the theoretical backgrounds and their implications in the domain. The set of references cited in a specific scientific literature may represent a discursive community. It shows the interaction between citing and cited authors as evidence of the theoretical, epistemological, or methodological proximity among them, delineating the features of the domain (Grácio, 2016; Grácio; Oliveira, 2017)
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