Análise da produção científica sobre políticas públicas no Brasil período de 1980 a 2018

Abstract

Introduction: In the last years it has been noticed an important growth of scientific production over public policy. As a research object, we seek to understand the behavior and growth of this production on Brazil. Objective: Analyze the scientific production on public policies in Brazil to understand its development, from 1980 to 2018. Methodology: it is about a quantitative research and a descriptive approach. The corpus formed by the set of scientific articles linked to the scientific journals recovered at SciELO, Brazil collection. The search strategy adopted: use of expression: (“Public Policies” OR “Public Policy”) on fields "tittle", "keywords" and "abstracts". For data extraction an R scraper known as Rscielo was used. Results: the adopted strategy returned 1,371 articles in 156 journal titles. From the bibliometric analysis it was found that “Science & Collective Health” was the journal with the most published articles: 102. From the recovered scientific journals, 36, 54% belong to the Human Sciences and 21,15% to Health Sciences. Of the articles, 69.15% were published in multiple authorship, being a good indicator of collaboration between authors and institutions. Final Considerations: In 38 years, Brazil has grown in scientific production on public policies, with the publication of scientific articles from different areas.