Metrias da comunicação e informação científicas e a contribuição dos pesquisadores da União Soviética e Rússia

Abstract

Research, using exploratory and document-descriptive methods, identifying the origins, development and principal fields of research related to the quantitative and bibliometric studies - and related disciplines on communication science and Science and Technology policies - produced in the Soviet Union and post communist Russia, between the 1960s until the first years of the 21th century. This research tries to identify the consistence of Soviet and Russian bibliographic production on these disciplines. The focus on this study will be on the ideas of soviet researchers Alexander Mikhailov, Gennady Dobrov and Vasily Nalimov, in the USSR reality, and Valentina Markusova, related to the bibliographic production in post soviet Russia. Initially, it was made a historical analysis about the construction and development of Science and Technology sectors in the Soviet Union and Russia, showing the backgrounds where the bibliometric studies was produced in these countries. Later, it was made an analysis about the evolution of bibliometric and scientometric studies in the USSR and Russia, with parallel with fields considered important to the development of these disciplines as, for example, History of Science, Philosophy of Science and Sociology of Science. In the end, the research analyzed the bibliographical production of researchers, related to the bibliometric and quantitative studies in the USSR and Russia, considered important to the consolidation of these disciplines in these countries in the 1950s and 1960s, and after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. This research identifies that, based on Nalimov, Dobrov, Mikhailov and Markusova production, the Soviet and Russian bibliometric and scientometric scenarios have consistence and, despite the problems related to an authoritarian policy imposed by the communist party, and the economic instability on the capitalist transition in Russia, continuity. It was also noted the possibility of other surveys and studies based on this research.