The Jornal Perspectives on Information Science and panorams scientific period from 2010 to 2014

摘要

This study intends to analyze the Perspectives on Information Science production, in the period between 2010-2014, with the criterion indicated by the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) as a political and visibility of Brazilian journals. This investigation is characterized as documentary. For the analysis, it sought to observe, for the period of the journal, the categories: articles, references, authors of articles, publishing and financing. From the analysis undertaken, the results indicated a predominance of original articles written in Portuguese and referenced sources is balanced by books and texts in Portuguese. In conclusion, there is a predominance of articles published in Portuguese, which could be reconsidered by the journal if the option is for the internationalization; thus, in this case, there is the need to publish articles primarily in English, increasing the number of reviewers and members of the editorial board linked to foreign institutions.