Usuários da informação: a produção científica no periódico Perspectivas em Gestão & Conhecimento

Abstract

The study of scientific production is an important indicator of trends in any area of knowledge. Seeking to understand how sets up the production on "Information Users" in the journal "Perspectivas em Gestão & Conhecimento”, an exploratory and descriptive research was carried out with the objective to map and analyze the scientific production on Information Users published in the aforementioned journal, in the period from 2011 to 2016. This research is justified because it is a few explored theme in literature and, also, because it not known a similar study carried out in the said journal. The methodology is guided in a quantitative and qualitative approach using Bardin’s content analysis, for qualitative analysis. The results indicate that, in the period studied, the paper published 12 productions that focus on the use of Information Use, Usability, Informational Behavior and Information Users. It is concluded that, in quantitative terms, the level of production on the Information Users is still small compared with the totality of production published in the journal during the studied period. However, the production quality is relevant, especially to the Informational Behavior theme.