Editoras-chefes de revistas em Ciência da Informação do Brasil: representação e representatividade

Abstract

The work presents a discussion about the relationships that involve scientific information, women and the issue of gender in Scientific Communication regarding the organization of scientific journals through the representation of their scientific editorials. The intention of the research is to highlight the importance of the presence of women in science as well as their contribution in the scope of scientific journals in Information Science and also in the Librarianship of Brazil, which seek to disseminate results of studies in the area. The study, then, has the general objective of analyzing how editorials of national scientific journals in Librarianship and Information Science (BCI) are organized, taking into account the role of women and gender disparities in publishing policy. Specifically, we sought to: map national scientific journals in BCI; present the editorials by genre; identify the role of women and gender disparities in publishing policy; discuss about and how protagonism can be socially represented by the woman who occupies the role of scientific editor of the Brazilian BCI journals. For that, a descriptive research was carried out supported by a quali-quanti analysis of the social roles of the editors-in-chief mobilized by the trajectory of women in science until reaching the editorials of scientific journals. Conducted through data analyzed based on aspects of the theory of social representation, to understand the representation of women in this scientific field in the midst of the social world. Finally, it was evidenced that the leading role in the scientific field and in the publishing of journals is only sustained with the necessary and required qualification for this function, together with an active posture in the midst of social differences that encompasses society today. The representation of women still yearns to reach greater spaces to have more evidence and appreciation.