Fluxo de informação na ciência da informação: tendências e direções na pesquisa brasileira.

Abstract

It presents the directions or trends of the brazilian research on the theme of Information Flow (IF), revealed in three-year publications(2017-2019) in brazilian journals in the field of Information Science (IC). Qualitative approach research that used bibliographic research as a technical procedure to collect publications in the three-year period, from 2017 to 2019, in the Reference Database of Information Science Journals (BRAPCI). The content analysis method and the categorical analysis technique were used to group the 37 selected publications, and were classified into four axes: IF in scientific information; IF in document management; IF in organizations; IF and interrelationships. It is evident that IF studies in organizations, as well as their interrelationships with other concepts coming from IC, are presented as directions or trends in brazilian research.