Analysis of the bibliographic production of a departament of an oficial engineering school of São Paulo State

Abstract

quantitativa analysis of the biblíographic production of a Departament of an oficial engineering school of the São Paulo state in the period from 1955 to 1985 was carried out. Based on the who/e number of documents produced, the Department
performance was estimated. For that, the biblíographic production in the period, the produced documents category, the production time behavior for each document category and the language used in the production of theses documets considered, together with the authorship characteristics of the papers in periods, congresses and similar events, taking into account the periods in wich the papers were publíshed and the events where
the papers were presented. The total amount of publícations was 397, distributed into seven categories, the major part being registered as papers present in congresses and similars. The time behavior observed varied quite enough during the period, and the year 1971 was the more productive. The great majority of works were publíshed in Portuguese. The average Department production in 31 years was 20,89 documents for each researcher and the year average was 1,38