Information mediation in the research groups and in the GT3 of ENANCIB: science communication spaces in Information Science

Abstract

Information mediation in the context of Information Science has expanded and enabled the creation of research groups with scientific production that favor the understanding of the subject. From the annual events of National Meeting Research in Information Science, we sought to observe the relationship between the research published in the Working Group 3 of National Association of Research and Pos-graduation in Information Science with the research groups registered in the directory of National Council for Scientific and Technological Development groups. This is an exploratory research with a quantitative approach, characterized as a bibliometric study carried out from the survey and the identification, in the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development Research Group Directory of 38 research groups with the theme mediation in the area of Information Science, as well as the papers presented in Working Group 3. Thus, we analyzed 277 publications between the years 2005 and 2016. The results showed that the region, which has the largest number of research groups, is the Northeast (15), where most of the groups research is still fresh, with 1 to 4 years old (42%). Out of a 38 research groups, 27 were involved with the work publications in National Meeting Research in Information Science, over 11 editions in a total of 144 published articles. It is considered that a large number of the research groups is active and in line with the demand of higher education institutions and funding agencies, when they link scientific production to the incentive of research, which reinforces the understanding of mediation as a transversal theme that covers the different roles of the information professionals.