Interdisciplinary relationships between Information Science and Communication Science: analysis from citations, academic training of evaluators and keywords of these areas theses

ABSTRACT

The paper studies interdisciplinary relations within and between areas of Information Science and Science Communication, discussing the paradigm changes that have happened in these disciplines. Analyzes interdisciplinary relationships using bibliometric and scientometric methods, specifically of co-occurrence and co-citation analysis. Data were collected for theses of 4 Brazilian graduate programs (10 theses of each program) and analyzed relations between the citations, including the area of knowledge of the evaluators and between keywords, aiming to identify co-occurences and therefore identify interdisciplinary relationships within and between the two areas. It was found that there are strong relationships as co-citations analysis; variety from the area of knowledge of the evaluators and relatively high co-occurrence between these areas, but more intense in the area of Information Science and more interest (in this area) in Communication Science area; relationships were identified between the two areas through co-occurrence analysis of keywords. We conclude that both areas have strongly interdisciplinary characteristics, however, are more intense in Information Science than the Science of Communication, with more interest the first area in the second.

Keywords:
Interdisciplinarity; Information Science; Communication Science; Bibliometrics; Scientometrics