Multidisciplinarity and specificity in scientific publication: discussion of the impact when assessing different fields

Abstract

The bibliographic references may reveal how science is being published, and thus provide important information regarding the history of any magazine. When identifying the impact of different types of documents cited by five scientific journals of different fields, it was found that the book has considerably been more quoted in a particular magazine of Applied Social Sciences; meanwhile, the Public Health field makes use of this type of document about as much as it does with scientific articles. In journals of Physics and Medicine, citations from international journals are much more prevalent. As for journals in the field of Veterinary and Information Science, proceedings and dissertations stand out. These findings are important to understand how the scientific publication of different fields work. And that could also be observed when analyzing both the ratings of the journals in Qualis, and the criteria of existing field documents. Bibliometric indicators that are not restricted to an index are able to provide parameters to cooperate in establishing criteria for the assessment of scientific production in Brazil, according to the characteristics of different fields of knowledge.