Information and knowledge management: an analysis of scientific studies indexes on Brapci

Abstract

This study aims to assess the condition of Brazilian research on information and knowledge management, significant themes for Information Science. For this, we analyzed scientific studies on information management and knowledge management which were published in journals between 1972 and 2020 and indexed in the Reference Database of Articles on Information Science Journals (Brapci). As our initial procedure, scientific papers from the assessed period which were indexed in Brapci were surveyed. To analyze the main thematic approaches in these scientific papers, content analysis was used, more specifically, categorical analysis. Categories were established a posteriori. We found that capture/construction/sharing/retention (conducted in distinct environments and competitive intelligence/organizational intelligence (strategic management) were the most recurrent subthemes. According to the systematized data referring to a research elite, note that this group of researchers were responsible for publishing (considering co-authorships), 40.1% of all scientific papers. Note that the instruments to evaluate a certain studied object aim to socialize scientific knowledge. Results indicate that these authors have significant visibility in the assessed scientific field.