Contribuição do Portal de Periódicos da Capes para a produção científica dos pesquisadores brasileiros no campo do Direito: um estudo bibliométrico

The concepts of information policy and of public policies cycle give support to the idea that the Portal Periodicos Capes represents the instrument of a public policy of access to scientific information that modified the information regime in force until then. In this context, to assess the legitimacy of this political change that directly affected the functionalities of scholarly communication in the country, this study used bibliometric techniques in order to assess the contribution of foreign journals subscribed by the Portal in the area of Law to the production of Brazilian researchers in this area. The research population involved permanent professors from the Law Graduate Programs who obtained grades 4, 5 and 6 in the 2013 Triennial Evaluation. Their production was examined, including scientific articles published abroad, and all citations to foreign articles were extracted, forming a list of foreign journal titles that was then compared with the list of journals signed by the Portal, aiming to define demand versus supply indicators. The results have shown that researchers in the field of Law used only 7.6% of foreign titles available on the Portal, investing more in open access and print format journal titles.