Multidisciplinarity and specificity in scientific publication: discussion of the impact when assessing different fields

As refer??ncias bibliogr??ficas podem revelar o perfil da ci??ncia publicada, oferecendo importantes informa????es sobre a hist??ria de uma revista. Ao identificar o impacto dos diferentes tipos de documentos citados por cinco revistas cient??ficas de ??reas diversas, constatou-se que o livro ?? consideravelmente mais citado numa revista de Ci??ncias Sociais Aplicadas, enquanto a ??rea de Sa??de Coletiva faz uso deste tipo de documento em propor????es equipar??veis com os artigos cient??ficos. Nas revistas de F??sica e Medicina as cita????es a revistas internacionais s??o muito mais prevalentes. E na revista de Veterin??ria e de Ci??ncia da Informa????o, destacam-se os anais e teses. Estas constata????es s??o importantes para entender as culturas de comunica????o cient??fica das ??reas, o que p??de ser observado tamb??m ao analisar, tanto as classifica????es das revistas no Qualis, quanto os crit??rios constantes dos documentos de ??rea. Indicadores bibliom??tricos n??o restritos a um ??ndice s??o capazes de oferecer par??metros para cooperar na defini????o de crit??rios para avalia????o da produ????o cient??fica brasileira, segundo as caracter??sticas das diferentes ??reas do conhecimento.The bibliographic references may reveal how science is being published, and thus provide important information regarding the history of any magazine. When identifying the impact of different types of documents cited by five scientific journals of different fields, it was found that the book has considerably been more quoted in a particular magazine of Applied Social Sciences; meanwhile, the Public Health field makes use of this type of document about as much as it does with scientific articles. In journals of Physics and Medicine, citations from international journals are much more prevalent. As for journals in the field of Veterinary and Information Science, proceedings and dissertations stand out. These findings are important to understand how the scientific publication of different fields work. And that could also be observed when analyzing both the ratings of the journals in Qualis, and the criteria of existing field documents. Bibliometric indicators that are not restricted to an index are able to provide parameters to cooperate in establishing criteria for the assessment of scientific production in Brazil, according to the characteristics of different fields of knowledge