Análise bibliométrica da produção científica do grupo de pesquisa MHTX

Abstract

This paper presents the mapping of the theses and dissertations production from the Conceptual Modeling Research Group of the Hypertextual Documents Organization - MHTX. It was possible to do a qualitative analysis of the data collected through a quantitative approach with the data collection. It aimed to identify the most cited authors in the academic production of the Group and to identify the theoreticalmethodological basis that has been used in the research of its members. It was intended to know if there was an expansion of the contents for new fields of knowledge using the interdisciplinarity, since it is assumed that it is a characteristic of the Group to do an interface with the areas of Information Science, Library Science, Computer Science, Cognitive Sciences, and Linguistics. The research is characterized as a descriptive documentary with a quantitative and a qualitative approach, in which the data of the scientific productions of the members of the MHTX Research Group were collected, referring to theses and dissertations defended in the period from June 2004 (origin of the Group) to June of 2015, taking as a sample five theses and eleven dissertations. The data were collected from the bibliographic references, using Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets from the following parameters: authors; title; origin of the text; date; documentary typology; publisher or journal; the most cited research institutions; temporality; keywords. The results showed that there is a theoretical methodological coherence in a sequence in the researches, and that it has been expanded, according to the research advances interdisciplinary frontiers.