Big data em periódicos da área de Ciência da Informação

Abstract

The purpose of this article was to analyze how the themes: big data and open science in journals in the Information Science have been approached. This is a bibliographic search based on articles from scientific journals on the topics big data and open science. Articles from 21 journals specialized in the Information Science area were analyzed, 3 with Qualis A1 classification, 3 as A2 and 15 titles as B1, quadrennium 2013-2016. Data collection was carried out by searching the search option of the official pages of the selected journals, for the period from 2000 to 2019. The term big data was used as a search strategy and 88 articles were retrieved. Of the total articles retrieved on big data, 6 deal with it in the context of data science and 13, with lenses turned to open science. The other articles were disregarded. It was concluded that 2019 and 2016 were the years in which there were more publications on the topics. With this study, it was observed the space that the themes have been gaining in journals in the area of Information Science.