Reflections from the bibliometric analysis about documents types, information flows and documents evaluation

Abstract

Investigating interrelated elements that can bring advantages to organizations is essential, especially, given the new demands of records management in these environments. The citations are analyzed in articles from periodicals of the Information Science area, from the following keywords: documentary types, information flows and appraisal, to observe which researchers have developed investigations about these themes, seeking to evidence if the texts present relationship between the three themes mentioned above. As far as methodological procedures are concerned, the research is descriptive-exploratory, of a qualitative and quantitative nature. From this perspective, the bibliometric analysis was applied, more specifically the citation analysis of 28 (twenty-eight) selected articles, contemplating 489 (four hundred and eighty-nine) citations. It was observed that only 73 (seventy-three) researchers investigate the thematic mentioned above, of which only four (4) establish relationship between them. Highlights the importance of studies to investigate and reflect on this interrelationship and impact of this for business organizations.