A contribuição das coleções de periódicos científicos do Portal de Periódicos da CAPES para a produção científica na área de Farmácia

Abstract

It analyzes the contribution of the CAPES Journals Portal for the scientific production of the permanent faculty of the Postgraduate Programs in Pharmacy in the 2010-2012 triennium. The area of health is a field that has been expanding in terms of research and the option of studying the Pharmacy subarea was because there are few researches in the area, mainly researches about the CAPES Journals Portal, principally focusing on evaluation of collections. The methodology used was the documentary research, with descriptive analysis and quantitative approach, utilizing bibliometric techniques. The population studied were the permanent faculty linked to the Postgraduate Programs (PPGs) in Pharmacy recognized by CAPES. Of the 63 PPGs in the Pharmacy area identified during the specified period, seven Programs with concepts 6 and 7 in the CAPES classification were selected, considering that the scientific production in the ambit of those programs would present more expressive tendencies of use of the foreign bibliographic resources available in the Portal. Between 2010 and 2012, it was found that those seven Programs had a permanent faculty table composed of 127 researchers, who published a total of 1387 articles in 553 foreign journals. As for the collection offered by the Portal, it was observed a reduction of twenty one titles between 2015 and 2017, corresponding to 0.17%. Regarding to the contribution of the Portal to the scientific production of the area, it was found that 84.45% of the titles in which the faculty of the area publish their researches are covered by the Portal. It was concluded that the Portal presents a significant contribution for the researchers of the Pharmacy area.