A Amazônia nas publicações científicas: mapeando temáticas e atores

Abstract

The Amazon with its vast biota is characterized as one of the richest and least exploited territories on the planet. The relevance of this biome becomes the guiding point for the question about responsibility as well as about the themes of the scientific knowledge produced on it. In view of this, the present work aims to map the authors and themes of the scientific productions about this biome, aiming to answer the question of research: does the scientific knowledge about the Amazon reflect the public policies focused on the region? The empirical study, which is an exploratory and quantitative one, based on bibliometric techniques, had as primary information source the reference data of scientific articles. These data were collected in the Scopus database, from the term Amazon *, considering the period from 1991 to 2015. For the analysis, the data were grouped in five quinquennials: 1- 1991 to 1995, 2- 1996 to 2000, 3 - 2001 to 2005, 4- 2006 to 2010 and 5- 2011 to 2015. Keyword co-occurrences analyzes were performed aiming at the identification of thematic networks and also analysis of co-authorship to identify the networks of collaboration between the actors (countries and authors). For the elaboration of the maps with the networks of authors, countries and thematic, the software VOSviewer was used. As conclusions, there was a gradual increase of the publications about Amazonia in the studied periods. In addition, the information obtained shows a relative distance between the public policies focused on the region and the scientific knowledge produced. It is hoped that the results set will contribute to a better understanding of the research carried out and disseminated on and coming from the region.