Given the current global environmental crisis, restoring degraded ecosystems stands out among the nature-based solutions to mitigate climate change, reestablish ecosystem services, and maintain biodiversity and human well-being. The high biodiversity of the Atlantic Forest (AF) and its severe degradation turned it into a "restoration hotspot." We performed a bibliometric analysis of the research on restoration of the Brazilian AF to identify thematic trends, potential gaps, as well as networks and benefits of collaboration. We also explored the spatial distribution of degradation, restoration science, and practice within the AF. We analyzed 932 articles on the issue from the Web of Science platform . Publications abruptly increased in the last 15 years, first by Brazilian groups and later in collaboration with foreign groups. International collaboration increased the probability of highly cited articles. Topics addressed have changed greatly in their relative position over time, likely due to scientific advances refuting theories or invalidating failed techniques. Natural regeneration was the main trending topic, while forest succession was the main emerging topic, and ecosystem services appeared as a trending topic. Research and restoration initiatives were both unevenly distributed throughout the AF region, with the southeastern region of Brazil standing out (60% of publications). The percentage of the original AF undergoing restoration is very low in all regions, regardless of scientific publications or AF extent remaining. The knowledge gaps pointed-climate change and functional traits-should drive priorities for research funding, aiming to provide robust evidence to support decision-making processes as well as restoration practices.
RESUMOAnalisa a figura da ética relacionada à formação profissional em informação. Aponta aspectos e questões evidenciados em análise de conteúdo da presença temática da ética expressa na literatura periódica em ciência da informação. Parte de um levantamento de artigos de periódicos, registrado em base de dados específica (BRAPCI), relativa ao período entre 1970 e 2006, composta de um total de 4212 artigos, publicados em 26 títulos. Após extração de um corpus, constituído de 37 artigos, procedentes de 16 títulos, revela as tendências investigativas sobre o tema, a fim de evidenciar como tem sido enfocada a ética e suas relações com a formação do profissional da informação, as temáticas a ela associadas e as principais questões levantadas pelos autores dos artigos. O conjunto de artigos selecionados foi analisado também pela freqüência dos descritores, periódicos de origem e ano de publicação. Registra a baixa ocorrência de discussões relativas à ética e sua importância para a formação dos profissionais da informação. Constata ainda a variedade de olhares para esse objeto, enfatizando sua relevância como elemento-chave da educação e do preparo de sujeitos para o mundo do trabalho.Palavras-chave: ética e educação; ética e formação profissional; formação profissional em Ciência da Informação.
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It analyses ethics in relation to the professional education in the field of Information Science. It points out main aspects and questions of the matter as a result of a content analysis on ethics thematic presence in Information
The article focuses on the ways of organizing studies according to their methodological choices in the Base Referencial de Artigos de Periódicos em Ciência da Informação (Reference Database of Journal articles in Information Science). We highlight how the organization of scientific production by the methodological choices in Information Science contributes to the identification of its production features and domain analysis. We studied research categories and proposed five classification criteria: research purposes, approaches, focus, techniques and type of analysis. The proposal of a corpus in Information Science is empirically applied, represented by 689 articles, 10% of the production indexed in Base Referencial de Artigos de Periódicos em Ciência da Informação from 1972 to 2010. We adopt content analysis to interpret the methodological choices of authors identified in the corpus. The results point out that exploratory studies are more predominant when considering the research purpose; regarding the research approach, bibliographic and documentary studies are more predominant; systematic observation, questionnaire and interview were the most widely used techniques; document analysis and content analysis are the most widely used types of analysis; the research focus of theoretical, historical and bibliometric studies are more predominant. We found that some studies use two methodological choices and explicit epistemological approaches, such as the studies following the positivist approach in the 1970s, and those influenced by the phenomenological approach in the 1980s, which increased the use of methods in qualitative research.
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