Information management in the Brazil and Argentina journals: an analysis of the last decade

Abstract

Understanding how information management is being handled by the area's journals assists both in the growth of the area itself and in the professionals who work in it. Therefore, the general objective of this communication was to carry out a detailed analysis of the articles of the journals with Qualis Capes A1, A2 and B1 strata of the Communication and Information area, addressed to the Information Management, Brazil and Argentina. With regard to the specific objectives, we tried to identify which are the periodicals that most published articles in the theme; Discover in which year there were more publications; Knowing who are the most productive authors; Listing the most commonly used keywords in the articles; To ascertain the methodological procedures used and the way the recovered texts are discussing the information management theme, as well as their models in these contexts. Regarding the methodology, the article is exploratory with a qualitative-quantitative approach based on a bibliographical review on the topics of information and competitiveness; information management; Information management models and, later, a bibliometric study carried out in the articles of Brazilian and Argentine periodicals from January 2007 to January 2017. As results, they show that there is considerable production on the subject and that it is being. Maintained over the years. it is considered that there is the interest of researchers in the importance of information management for the area.