C. Kuhlthau contribution for information science in Brazil

Abstract

This article presents the results of a research about the impact of Kuhlthau in the Brazilian production of Information Science. It was taken citations of the author in all articles published for seven Brazilian journals, from 2003 to 2007. Kuhlthau is cited in 17 of the 872 articles analyzed. From the 19,577 bibliographic references of these articles, 24 are Kuhlthau’s works. These references were analyzed to identify the frequency of each Kuhlthau’s work cited, year, language, kind and co-authorship cases. The citing articles were analyzed in terms of thematic and institutional origin of the authors. Finally, it was examined the importance of the citation of the author for the discussions in citing articles. Some results are: the most cited work, Inside the search process: information seeking from the user’s perspective, with 8 references; the author’s greatest contribution is in the information’s user studies; the Brazilian institution that most cite Kuhlthau works is UFMG, and, the most important kind of citation is the conceptual citation.