A Consciência ´possível para Gestão do Conhecimento no Brasil

Abstract

It shares the first research results addressing the theme Knowledge Management in the field of Information Science, in Brazil, from the perspective of possible awareness, scheduled for realization in three stages.  It discusses the key research concept and presents the conceptual network that supports its development, and describes its methodology, based on the indicator method, and procedures. It presents, as results of the first stage of the research, tables and graphs on articles published on the subject and indexed in the Information Science Database, from 1999 to 2012, retrieved from the search in the titles, as well as data on their respective. authorships. A total of 101 articles retrieved from 19 Information Science journals were retrieved, most of them described as “scientific articles” (33 articles) and “articles” (30 articles), identifying 194 authors of which five are the most productive. Analyzes the results obtained, which signal the confirmation of the working hypothesis, identifying the period and events that represent the introduction of the theme Knowledge Management and its growing relevance in the field of Information Science in Brazil.