Representatividade da produção científica brasileira por região: fontes coletadas pelo Portal OasisBr

Abstract

The research is inserted in the theme related to digital repositories and trends of communication and scientific dissemination, being carried out in order to fill the gaps regarding the global representativeness of scientific production indexed by the Brazilian portal of open access scientific publications (Portal oasisbr ). The objective was to analyze the proportion between the population of each federation unit versus the geographical origin of the sources collected by Portal oasisbr. For data collection, a quantitative-descriptive methodology was used, in which, regarding the population distribution, the data used came from the demographic census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), which covers the period 1960-2010. , and regarding the collected sources, the data provided by Portal oasisbr for the first quarter of 2019 were used. The crossing of the data points discrepancy regarding the geographical origin of the collection sources. Regarding scientific journals, the representativeness ofthe Southeast and South regions is notorious, since, together, they constituted more than 75% of the portal's total scientific journals. Regarding the Digital Libraries of Theses and Dissertations, the prominence is for the Southeast Region, with 51.85% of the total, while the other regions were underrepresented, ranging from 5.56% for the Northern Region, and 16. , 67%, for the South Region. Finally, the analysis made under the institutional repositories was more balanced, although, once again, the prominence is from the Southeast Region (28.17%). An overview of the survey results shows the supremacy of the Southeast Region for the three sources collected, and this fact can be explained, at least in part, by the high percentage of the Brazilian population that inhabits this region. At the other end, the Northeast Region, which has the second largest population contingent, is underrepresented in the portal for the three collection sources. Another disparate data regarding the representativeness could be verified in the Midwest Region, since, despite having the smallest population contingent, it appears in second position in relation to the institutional repositories. The work is, therefore, a brief diagnosis that allows us to identify representativity problems and then try to remedy them. The motives that generate the results can be political, economic, social, etc.