Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências e o Ponto T de Goffman: estudo exploratório

Abstract

Bibliometric research in the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences using Goffman’s Point T to identify the behavior of Biological Sciences in Brazil and its relations with other scientific areas in the decades of 1990, 2000 and 2010. The methodology was divided in four steps: sample selection, word count, identification of semantic meaningful words in the sample and mapping of related knowledge areas. The study corroborated the argument that bibliometric research is an effective resource to monitor information. The research results clarify the socio-political and economic development of each of these three moments.