Competência informacional: análise evolucionária das tendências da pesquisa e produtividade científica em âmbito mundial

The goal of this paper is to analyze the scientific production and research tendencies on information Literacy, based on a search conducted in two major international multidisciplinary databases dedicated to citation analysis: Web of Science (WoS) and SCOPUS. It addresses the bibliometrics analysis and its importance in determining trends in scientific activity and production. Then, the evolution of the concept of information literacy, since its inception in 1974 until 2010 is presented. The collection was identified by a search of the keyword "information literacy" in the above-mentioned databases. It concludes presenting the world trends in information literacy studie