THE CONTRIBUTION OF F.W. LANCASTER TO THE INFORMATION SCIENCE IN BRAZIL

Abstract

This articles presents the results of a research to see the impact of Lancaster in the Brazilian production in Information Science. It was looked citations to the author on all articles published in seven Brazilian journals, between the years 2003 at 2007. Lancaster is cited in 31 of the 872 articles analyzed. From the 19,577 bibliographic references of these articles, 42 are from his authorship These references were analyzed to identify the frequency of each Lancaster’s work cited, year, language, kind and cases of co-authorship. The citing articles were analyzed in terms of thematic and institutional origin of the authors. Finally, it examined the importance of the citation to the author for the discussions in citing articles. Some results are: the most cited work, “Indexing and abstracting in theory and practice, with 15 references; the author’s greatest contribution is in the theory of classification and systemic theory; the Brazilian institution that the most cited is the Unesp; the most important kind of citation is the confirmatory citantion.