A representação do conhecimento através da análise de citações: o caso da UFC

Abstract

In the field of SIC, one finds the studies of the representation on several aspects, for example, in the treatment, the research, the communication and the reception of information. In this context, is distinguished the citation as a communication form “of line” established between the “citante” author and that one that the quotation, what it goes to consist in that we call of invisible net of science. We consider that the dialogues established between the participants of the net form a species of representation of the knowledge, to the measure who normally go being cited and start to be part of the set of information registered in memory human being. It is to leave of this understanding that we undertake this research having as objective basic to study the representation of the knowledge in the context of citations of the scientific literature of the professors of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) in the North-East of Brazil in the decade of 90 (ninety), trying to identify the reasons that take the choice of definitive tickets of a text to represent it in another one. Also we study the standards of behavior of the production of the professors of the UFC in that it says respect the cited articles and to the scientific transdisciplinary intra enters and departments and is of the scope of the UFC. The results show that the majority of the participants considers the citation as a form of representation of the knowledge and that the citations are used among others to confirm strong and important tickets considered for the argument that the author looks for to emphasize, confer security for the author in tickets controversies and, in the autocitation case, ratifies and divulges the work.