Dal'Evedove Tartarotti, Roberta Cristina [UNESP]Dal'Evedove, Paula ReginaLopes Fujita, Mariangela Spotti [UNESP]2020-12-102020-12-102017-01-01Encontros Bibli-revista Eletronica De Biblioteconomia E Ciencia Da Informacao. Florianopolis: Univ Federal Santa Catarina, v. 22, n. 48, p. 41-58, 2017.http://hdl.handle.net/11449/197482In order to enable the qualitative data collection of introspective nature, some studies in Information Science are conducted through the Verbal Protocol. The option for the technical results from the feasibility is magnified observation studies, mostly related to the mental processes of research subjects in reading activities. As a way to contribute to the operation of Verbal Protocol in qualitative research in the Organization and Representation of Knowledge and offer subsidies for the correct use of emphasis on technique, the purpose of this article is to present the Verbal Protocol in Group, its main advantages and disadvantages as a qualitative technique of data collection, characterize the Brazilian scientific community in the theme through production and connection bibliometric indicators and present examples of its applicability in Brazilian research. The analysis enabled the identification of relevant aspects of scientific production in the highlighted modality, whose results contribute to the direction of future research by the scientific community of Information Science. It concludes that the modality of Verbal Protocol in Group contributes as an introspective and interactive technique of data collection to provide consistent results for a significant body of research that was used.41-58porVerbal Protocol in GroupIntrospectionBibliometric analysisQualitative researchKnowledge Organization and RepresentationArtigo10.5007/1518-2924.2017v22n48p41WOS:000487464600004