Scientific events fulfil several functions in the context of science. It is an excellent means of communication between scientists, giving internal and external visibility to the works presented. Scientific production has been growing significantly, and, consequently, understanding the behavior of this trend has become essential. The results presented at events, usually published in proceedings, aim to show what was broadcast and debated during the event. Given the above, this study seeks to give characteristics of Brazilian scientific production published in event proceedings, using the curricula registered in the Lattes Platform as a data source. From our analysis, we identified and discussed the large areas that have more excellent representation in the analyzed set; a temporal analysis is allowed us to verify the years with the most significant number of publications. It was possible to confirm if any persistent identifier was used in the records of these publications.
Objective. This article has analyzed the publications of articles in scientific events using open data from the Lattes Platform.
Design/Methodology/Approach. The LattesDataXplorer tool was used to extract curricular data from the Lattes Platform. The selection stage consisted of verifying which curricula had works published in scientific events. In the treatment stage, a characterization of the articles was carried out, thus allowing the analysis of articles published in scientific events.
Results/Discussion. It was possible to carry out some characterizations such as temporal analysis, analysis by a large area of expertise, and which articles use persistent identifiers. The temporal analysis made it possible to verify how many articles were published per year. Through the analysis by a large area of action, the individuals with the highest and lowest rate of publication in annals of events were identified. Approximately 3% of articles report the persistent identifier (DOI).
Conclusions. The peak of publications is in 2011, afterwards, there was a significant drop. Individuals from Health Sciences have a higher rate of publication in event proceedings, while individuals from the Exact and Earth Sciences have a lower volume of publications. Only 30,936 of the articles have a persistent identifier, but individuals from the Exact and Earth Sciences (30.68%) are the ones who use persistent identifiers the most.
Originality/Value. From data extracted from the Lattes Platform, the results of original research that seeks to characterize Brazilian scientific production utilizing events are presented.
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