Producción Científica

It aims to map and analyze the scientific production of articles on educational assessment in teacher education, indexed in the Web of Science, Scopus and Scielo databases. The study was based on bibliometric indicators and established three axes of analysis, by: publishers; periodicals; and articles. 177 articles were mapped and published by 119 journals and 76 publishers. The results highlight that 51% of the articles’ production are concentrated in six commercial publishers. On the other hand, countries like Brazil, Spain, Canada and Singapore concentrate more than 50% of their production in university publishers. Among 119 journals, Bradford’s Law identified a core of 7 most productive journals that are specialized in the topic. The Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education journal was highlighted for being the most published, with 9 articles, and published the most cited study. Of the 177 articles, 20 received at least 18 citations and are considered to have the greatest impact. In addition, 64% of the 1248 citations received by all mapped articles accumulate. We point out the importance of a consolidated scientific publishing industry, which gives visibility to the cultural diversity of research and areas of knowledge, as well as the professionalization of editorial processes. At the same time, policies are still needed to fund publications and debates on the monopolization of production in a few publishers. We also point to the need for investigations on scientific production on assessment in teacher education in databases that bring together journals that are invisible in the mainstream of science, strengthening understudied regions.

There is a growing interest behalf of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to develop and apply knowledge management practices or strategies that are effective within these organizations, since these have the mission of being scenarios of knowledge generation and transfer, because they dynamize the different dimensions (social, economic and personal) that make up society. This research aims to determine the evolution and trends immersed in the literature on knowledge management strategies in HEIs, presenting the results of the development of a bibliometric study based on the analysis of productivity, the most representative authors, the evolution and the tendencies about the proposed theme. The designed methodology analyzes the selected documents, obtained by means of a search equation in the Scopus databases and calculates the bibliometric indicators of quantity and quality. Among the findings, they are emerging as new trends: strategies and tools for online training and the use of social networks for the management and dissemination of information in HEIs. Also, the literature shows that there is better performance in research productivity and efficiency of administrative processes, through the implementation of knowledge management models in these organizations.

In Brazil, most of the scientific research is developed within the scope of the Brazilian university Graduate Programs, which host the Master’s and Doctorate courses. These Graduate Programs are evaluated by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, an organ of the Brazilian Ministry of Education, which classifies the Graduate Programs in a ranking that ranges from 1 to 7, with 7 being the level of excellence. Among the inputs used by this evaluation process, there are the Brazilian researcher Lattes CVs, which contain all the details of the researchers’ academic life, such as their academic background, areas of professional activity, intellectual production, student supervisions, collaboration networks, etc. The CVs of Brazilian researchers are publicly available for download in XML format. In this paper, we undertake a bibliometric analysis of the CVs taken from researchers who are part of a sample of Brazilian Graduate Programs in Manufacturing Engineering that have national ranking greater or equal to 4. For a period of 10 years (2008-2017), we sought to identify the most published topics, vehicles most used for publication, the basic training of the researchers, and the potential existence of collaboration networks between the Graduate Programs. Among other results, we could identify that 29 institutions are Alma Mater of 68.36% of the researchers analyzed. In addition, it was possible to verify that only two Brazilian scientific events account for 7.5% of the total of publications for the analyzed sample and period.