Instrumento informacional digital para monitoramento da produção científica de egressos dos programas profissionais da ciência da informação do nordeste do Brasil

Abstract

This research analyzes the scientific output of graduates from professional master's programs in Information Science located in the Northeast region of Brazil, considering its relevance for the evaluation, visibility, and understanding of the formative role of these programs within the National Postgraduate System. The study seeks to answer how the scientific output of students and graduates expresses the applied nature of professional master's programs and what challenges emerge in the process of identifying, organizing, and analyzing this information. The general objective is to map and examine the output developed during the course and after graduation, as well as to propose a technical solution capable of supporting the systematic monitoring of this output. To achieve this, five specific objectives were established: a) to list and map the scientific output of graduates while they were active students; b) to identify and map the output developed after graduation; c) to identify and categorize the technical products generated by the programs; d) to discuss the specificities of applied output in light of CAPES guidelines and the literature in the field; e) to develop an informational instrument for monitoring the scientific output of graduates. The methodology adopts a qualitative-quantitative approach, with procedures for document review, curriculum analysis, and classification of publications in scientific journals, following the original language of the journals and the delimitation criteria established in the corpus. The preliminary analysis reveals recurring difficulties in locating publications, resulting from the absence of specific public sections on institutional websites, the frequent outdatedness of Lattes curricula, and the dispersion of information across multiple platforms—factors that compromise the visibility and monitoring of post-graduation academic trajectories. The study also identifies the growing participation of graduates in scientific communication, with variations between programs and years, and demonstrates the need for tools that centralize and present the data generated by professional master's programs in an integrated manner. The developed technical product is a response to this scenario, offering a functional prototype aimed at organizing, systematizing, and visualizing scientific production, favoring evaluative practices, comparative analyses, and the consolidation of indicators on the formative contribution of the programs.