Análise cienciométrica da produção científica sobre peixes continentais no Brasil

Abstract

Scientometrics is the study of the quantitative aspects of science as a discipline or economic activity, with it it is possible to identify the growth of knowledge within an area. Since Brazil is a widely diverse country and has an immeasurable wealth, there are several gaps in scientific knowledge about biodiversity. The Brazilian ichthyofauna is quite unknown, when one looks at the Brazilian basins alone, it has a high rate of endemism. Therefore, the objective of this study was to quantify scientific production on continental fish species in Brazil. To promote the scientometric study, the Scopus database was used where a 2001-2020 survey was conducted with the keywords: "fish", "Dams" and "Brazil"; and the method used was described by Rodrigues et al. (2018) and Almeida (2019), where the articles were read, filtered and separated for analysis. Later the data were passed by the software Rstudio by the Bibliometrix package. The search generated 346 articles, of which 226 were selected, the years with the highest productions were: 2020 (28 articles); 2012 (20 articles); 2019 (19 articles); 2017 (17 articles), and 2015 (18 articles). The most used journal was Neotropical Ichthyology with 38 publications, in Brazil the university that most contributed to the scientific knowledge about ichthyofauna was the Universidade Estadual de Maringá. It should be noted that Brazil studies very little about its fish, a number of 226 articles in 20 years is very small, considering the rupture of dams, the advance of water exploitation, and water contamination.