Verificação dos padrões globais do conhecimento científico sobre a microbiologia forense

Abstract

Forensic microbiology is a new area that has gained space and growth along with advances in technologies in molecular biology and advances in bioinformatics. With the rise of these methods, microbial analysis gained forensic applicability, such as in human identification, postmortem interval, and biocrimes. The objective of the present work was to verify the global standards of knowledge quantitatively and descriptively about publications in forensic microbiology in crime resolutions. The analysis followed the quantitative methodology of scientometrics, the screening process of the articles was carried out by reading the titles and abstracts. An analysis spreadsheet was created with the author's name, article title, year of publication, journal published, country of origin, keywords, objective of each work and number of citations. With a total number of 53 published works on microbiology forensics, the first article was published in 2016. The years 2019 (n=7) and 2021 (n=8) stood out as the years with the highest number of publications. The keywords most cited in the articles were: microbiology (n=24) and forensic microbiology (n=22). Finally, the most prominent author in relation to the number of articles published was Javan (n=8). Therefore, in global contexts, Forensic Sciences are increasingly known, even if in synonymous nomenclatures.