Estudo bibliométrico sobre organismos vegetais geneticamente modificados

Abstract

This article presents the results of a survey of studies in the world on “Transgenic” published between the years 1998 and 2014 in the periodics Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, Journal Biotechnology, Euphytica, Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, Crop Protection, Crop Science, Biotecnologic Review, Seed Science Research, Ciência e Agrotecnologia, Genetics and Molecular Research. To achieve this goal the following aspects were analyzed: a) the overall picture of the articles; b) identify the magazines with the largest number of publications, c) the number of publications by segments, Cotton, Soybeans, Corn, resistance to insects, tolerance to herbicides and review articles on the topic d) identify the most productive years and publishing the trend over time; e) identify the countries that publish f) identify the most frequent keywords in articles raised, g) the number of authors for articles. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, bibliometric analyzes, in total were selected 138 articles, the main results show us that the Crop Protection journal was the most published articles on GM; the United States is the country that leads the ranking publications; cotton was the most studied segment, and as a result the words cotton was the most frequent among the keywords, the articles are mostly written by six or more authors.