Brazilian archival science scientific literature: citations analysis in journal papers

Objetive. To know some characteristics of the communication channels used by the Brazilian Archival community. Method. It’s a bibliometric study about the prestige of scientific journals in articles of Brazilians archival science journals in order. The study use analysis of citations, with a random sample of complete 116 references of journal articles, and select reference data from the ABCDM database, from the Universidade de Brasília, which were exported into MS-Excel and SPSS. Results. The results present rankings of document types, journal titles and their countries, as well as the most frequent languages of these references. 78 channel types were identified, specially books (32.42%) and journal articles (22.46%). Among the 180 identified journal titles (89 Brazilian and 91 from other countries), the Brazilian most cited were Estudos Históricos (7.66%), Ciência da Informação (7.48%), Arquivo & Administração (5.47%), DataGramaZero (3.65%), Acervo (3.47%) and Arquivística.net (3.47%). Among foreigners, the most cited journals were Archivaria (6.02%), Archival Science (4.20%), American Archivist (3.47%) and Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2.19%). The countries with the most cited journals were Brazil (61.86%), United States (12.04%) and Canada (11.31%). The most mentioned language in the references were Portuguese (63.32%) and English (30.11%). Conclusions. The search to results point to a significant lack of specific current Brazilian journals and show that results resemble those of other research areas related to information areas in general, showing that Archival Science keep scientific communication features common to other areas of information in Brazil.