Scientometric analysis of the faceted approach by fellow researchers in productivity

Abstract

Domain analysis in information science aims to analyze an area that shares concepts in a specific community. Domain analysis is divided into 11 approaches, which are correlated by at least two of them: a) good evaluation, production and evaluation of specialized classifications and the thesaurus; b) the production and interpretation of bibliometric studies, the approaches used in this evaluation. The research problem is based on knowing: the researchers who have a productivity grant from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development who research about the faceted approach; the view that these researchers have about the faceted approach; and their contributions to the applied theoretical understanding of the faceted approach. The objective of the research is to verify who these researchers are and their production relations. For this, firstly, a survey was carried out on the Lattes platform to identify all productivity scholarship holders; second, it was verified which of these researchers work with the faceted approach; third, the publications of the researchers in the same approach were verified; and fourth, relations through scientometrics and statistics. As a result, the most productive authors working on the theme of facets were identified and it was found that their productions are significant, however, this production may not be representative, since productive researchers who work on this theme have great differences in production in terms of production thematic itself. For, for example, while a researcher has 29 publications, others have one or two, which made it necessary to analyze all the variables and implications arising from the data collected. It was concluded that the area of ​​facet analysis still requires a lot of exploration, especially with the expansion of the body of analysis.