Scientific knowledge and digital democracy in Brazil: how to assess public health policy debate with applied Scientometrics

We proposed an original research design based on applied Scientometrics and frame analysis to assess how a citation was made to sustain arguments in documents on public health policies subjected to online public consultation from 2003 to 2008 in Brazil. So we built on citation studies to create a ne...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Scientometrics 2010-06, Vol.83 (3), p.825-833
Main Authors: Hayashi, Maria Cristina Piumbato Innocentini, Rothberg, Danilo, Hayashi, Carlos Roberto Massao
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brazil
Computer Science
Democracy
Environmental health
Information Storage and Retrieval
Library Science
Scholarly publishing
Scientometrics
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:We proposed an original research design based on applied Scientometrics and frame analysis to assess how a citation was made to sustain arguments in documents on public health policies subjected to online public consultation from 2003 to 2008 in Brazil. So we built on citation studies to create a new scale to estimate why a scientific work was mentioned in our sample of 278 citations. We found that government branches make citations mainly to value their arguments, not to explain them, and that contributors mainly make citations in such a way that could discourage others from engaging in digital democracy.
ISSN:0138-9130
1588-2861
DOI:10.1007/s11192-009-0125-8