Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Impact of Single-Authored Articles in Brazilian Journals of Information

• Daniela Gralha de Caneda Queiroz ^[1] ; Jayme L. Vilan Filho ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

     Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

     Brasil

     
  2. [2] Universidade de Brasília

     Universidade de Brasília

     Brasil

     
• Localización: Revista Interamericana de Bibliotecología, ISSN 0120-0976, Vol. 48, Nº. 1, 2025
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.17533/udea.rib.v48n1e355217
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Análisis bibliométrico del impacto científico de los artículos de autoría única en revistas brasileñas de información
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• Resumen
  • español

    Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo describir el impacto científico de los artículos de un solo autor publicados en revistas brasileñas en las áreas de información: archivo, biblioteca, ciencias de la información y museología, entre 2009 y 2017. Se trata de un estudio bibliométrico descriptivo, con un enfoque metodológico cuantitativo aplicado. Se utilizaron la base de datos ABCDM, el software Harzing's Publish or Perish y la plataforma Lattes para recopilar datos, que se alimentaron y se analizaron en una tabla de Excel y con una prueba t (SPSS). De 1680 artículos de un solo autor, 313 fueron seleccionados al azar para su estudio. Los principales resultados en cuanto a la autoría mostraron que el 55,12 % de los autores tenía más artículos de un solo autor que de varios autores y el 67,36 % de los artículos más citados son de autoría única. Entre los principales resultados en relación con los artículos se tiene que el 35,10 % de los artículos de autoría única fueron los más citados entre todo el trabajo de un autor; en el 49,67% de los casos, el número medio de citas de artículos de un solo autor superó el número medio total de citas de los autores; en el 50 % de los casos, el número medio de citas de artículos de un solo autor superó el número medio de citas de artículos de varios autores. El número medio de citas de los artículos de un solo autor superó el número medio de citas de los artículos de varios autores y los artículos en general.

  • English

    This research aims to describe the scientific impact of single-authored articles published in Brazilian journals in information-related fields (Archival, Library Science, Information Science and Museology) between 2009 and 2017. This is a bibliometric study of a descriptive character, with an applied quantitative methodological approach. The ABCDM database, the Harzing’s Publish or Perish software and the Lattes Platform were used for data collection, which were then fed into and analyzed as Excel table and SPSS (t-test). From 1680 single-authored articles, 313 were randomly selected for study. Main results regarding the authorship were: 55.12% of authors had more single-authored articles than multiple-authored articles; 67.36% of the most cited articles were single-authored. Main results regarding the articles were: 35.10% of single-authored articles were the most frequently cited among an author’s entire body of work; in 49.67% of the cases, the average number of citations of single-authored articles exceeded the authors’ total average number of citations; in 50.00% of cases, the average number of citations of single-authored articles exceeded the average number of citations of multiple-authored articles. The average number of citations of single-authored articles exceeded the average number of citations of multiple-authored articles and of articles in general.

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