Publications in Scientific Events as a Data Source for Scientometric Analysis

Scientific production has shown significant growth in recent years, with numerous means of communication to disseminate such production. In this context, several studies focus on exploring the behavior of scientific evolution. For this reason, one of the main means of scientific communication today are events, in which countless and valuable works are generated, also enabling rapid communication with possibilities for argumentation, as well as contributions between peers. However, most works that evaluate scientific production in scientific events usually have specific repositories as a source of data, often restricted to some areas of knowledge. This work aims to analyze the scientific production published in the annals of events of the group of doctors who have curricula registered on the Lattes Platform. The data used were extracted from the Lattes Platform so that all the selection and treatment of the data of interest could be carried out. A characterization of the articles was carried out, making it possible to understand how Brazilian scientific production occurs. Through the results, it was possible to verify that a large area of Health Sciences has a higher rate of publication in annals of events; to draw a temporal analysis, it was verified the volume of publications that use persistent identifier (DOI) and which are the 10 countries that have the highest volume of publications in events. Through the results, it is possible to present traces of how Brazilian scientific production occurs in this medium of dissemination through various characteristics outlined in this work.