A produção científica sobre hanseníase dos líderes e vice-líderes dos grupos de pesquisa no Diretório de Grupos de Pesquisa (DGP)

Abstract

This article’s objective is to analyze the scientific production on leprosy, in the form of journal articles, circulating between 2001 and 2020, referred to in the Lattes Curriculum of the leaders and second leaders of research groups,

certified in the Directory of Research Groups of the CNPq and inserted in Biological Sciences and Health Sciences. For that, the research used methodological procedures and the conceptual framework of the Information Metrics Studies. We delimited the bibliometric analysis to the production of these researchers in terms of temporal distribution, journal’s origin, number of article per journal and institutional affiliation of the leader/second leader. It was concluded that the peak of publications among the 313 articles considered for bibliometric analysis occurred in 2017 and 121 different journals were used by researchers. Brazilian journals corresponded to 46.28% of the titles, but PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases from the United States of America was the most chosen by researchers. Regarding the institutional affiliation, the Federal University of Ceará was the institution that most often appeared as the origin of the researchers in the publications.