ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION OF THE RESEARCHERS OF THE AGGEU MAGALHÃES INSTITUTE/FIOCRUZ: Study of the Impact in WoS, Google Scholar, and Institutional Repository of Fiocruz (ARCA)
Key words: Communication and scientific dissemination; Science and Technology; Scientific Production Impact; Metric Indicators
Recognizing the importance of communication and scientific dissemination for the scientific production generated in Research and Teaching Institutions, and understanding that publicity directly implies the generation of new knowledge and the development of science and technology and, above all, fulfilling the social responsibility of public bodies towards society, this research aimed to analyze the impact of the scientific production of researchers from the Instituto Aggeu Magalhães (IAM/Fiocruz), a public institution in S&T, linked to the Ministry of Health (MS), in the period from 2014 to 2020. exploratory research with a qualitative-quantitative approach and application of a case study. To analyze the scientific production, a search was carried out on articles from journals indexed in the Web of Science, Google Scholar databases and registered in the Institutional Repository - RI (ARCA/Fiocruz). The sample included 45 researchers in public health at the IAM/Fiocruz, whose production of 1,147 journal articles was extracted from Lattes Curriculum, using the ScriptLattes tool. The study mapped the scientific production of IAM researchers, about the type of production, authorship, and title of journals; verified if the generated production is registered in ARCA and indexed in the Google Scholar and Web of Science databases; and analyzed the impact of production based on metric indicators (citation and productivity), and investigated whether scientific and technological information in health is registered and accessible for the generation of new knowledge and the evaluation of science. From the analysis, it is concluded that the Google Scholar database presented the greatest impact on published and registered articles, in contrast to the Institutional Repository ARCA, which presented the lowest registration. The study reinforced the importance of registration and access to scientific and technological production in Health and made clear the need for self-archiving and compliance with Fiocruz’s mandatory Policy for the deposit of articles in the RI (ARCA)