Produtividade dos autores em ceratocone: estudo longitudinal em artigos indexados no SciELO Brasil (2001-2010)

Abstract

Study of exploratory nature, of longitudinal character of articles indexed by Brazilian SciELO, from 2001 to 2010, in Keratoconus theme, which means an anomaly in the nature of the cornea. It was used the quantitative/ descriptive method in the micro level, having as analysis material the articles indexed in SciELO (2001-2010), totaling 49 units of analysis, distributed among three periodicals. There were 163 authors distributed into 207 authorship. The Bibliometric indicators raised highlight a high level of collaboration (97,96%) among the authors. The year of 2007 was the registered production. The production has showed a variation around three to ten articles/year and from one to seven authors/article. The geographical classification of authors focuses in four regions of Brazil (Northeast, Southeast, South and Midwest), with emphasis on the southeastern region with 76.78% of researchers. By metric analyses there is no major producers in the period in screen and the microstructure of co-authored presented a low density with little connection between the authors. However there is potential of new groups of co-authored and consequently the increase of scientific production