GESTÃO E AVALIAÇÃO DA PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO: UM ESTUDO BIBLIOMÉTRICO.

Based on the importance and contribution to society, Higher Education Institutions must act in the search to perform its routines aiming to continuous improvement of its performance. In this context, management and evaluation are important roles in the planning, execution and selection of this type of activities, which are characterized by a dynamic and complex environment. Thus, this study aims to perform a verification of the scientific productions registered in the IBICT, Scopus, Spell and Web of Science databases to verify what is being scientifically produced on the topic. As a method, this study performs a bibliometric analysis, using the descriptors "Postgraduate evaluation", "CAPES evaluation", "Postgraduate performance", "Qualitative Expansion of postgraduate" and "Strengthening postgraduate". Highlights analisys on the aforementioned platforms, through the reading of titles and abstracts, 25 publications were selected to compose the bibliometric portfolio, formed mostly by scientific articles, with publications from the South and Southeast regions predominance. The results show that the most used research method in these productions is the case study, the most present theme is the management of graduate programs, with the range of year of publication going from 2003 to 2019, with a concentration in the last 5 years. In conclusion, was noticed a high concentration on topics related to postgraduate management, evaluation and internationalization, totaling 80% of the productions in the bibliometric portfolio showing a great way to measure the state of the art and the contribution of scientific knowledge in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]