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This live is part of the Information Records project: dialogues between Librarianship, Archival Science and Information Science (CI); coordinated by the Superintendent of the University Library System (SIBI/UFBA), Professor Ivana Borges Lins, in partnership with the Information Science Institute (ICI)/UFBA.
Live mediated by Dr. Valdinéia Barreto, librarian at SIBI/UFBA. Prof. Dr. Sérgio Luís Costa Ferreira (Pro-Rector of Postgraduate Teaching and Research at UFBA) when addressing the theme, exposed the definition of scientometrics - study of the measurement and quantification of scientific progress, with the research being based on bibliometric indicators (numbers of articles , citation numbers, h-index, impact factor). He introduced the Web of Science, explained how to access it, in addition to explaining basic research, scientific production of an institution, Qualis and the scientific journal percentile, he showed how to search for the main journals by area. He highlighted that bibliometric indexes cannot be compared between different areas and researchers with different training time and highlighted the relevance of the CAPES Periodicals Portal.
