Um estudo sobre referências bibliográficas na área de ciência da computação

Abstract

The results from technological and scientific research are normally discussed in articles published in journals, conferences and seminaries. In the areas of natural sciences, such as Mathematics, Physics and Biology, research results are normally published in journals. The same pattern is observed in certain technological areas such as engineering. In the Computer Science area, however, there are reasons to suspect that publications in conferences have acquired an increasing prominence. For instance, the number of articles published in conferences now surpasses the number of articles in journals. This work presents a study of the publications from the main authors in Computer Science in the last 30 years, both in conferences and in journals. Our study suggests that conferences have grown large enough to make their impact as important as that of journals, in the area of Computer Science.