Scientific production about competitive intelligence of the School of Science Information of Brasilia University

Organizations are being demanded to maintain the best Competitive Intelligence (CI) practices due to modern times. CI is the activity that aims obtaining, analysing and disseminating information in order to help decision-making processes. The present research was conducted to view the scenario of scientific production on Competitive Intelligence at the School of Information Science (FCI) of Brasilia University (UnB). FCI offers the undergraduate courses in Archive Science, Librarianship, Museology, in addition to the Graduate Program in Information Science, which offers Master and Doctorate degrees. The research is characterized as descriptive and the scientific production survey was accomplished using the bibliometric method. This makes use of quantitative techniques to measure production and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Data were collected by means of a form through the UnB Institutional Repository, using the keyword "Competitive Intelligence". A total of 350 documents produced by the School of Information Science were were recovered, in the institutional repository, from which 37 were about Competitive Intelligence: 17 were articles published in academic periodic journals; four were papers presented and published in conference proceedings; 10 were dissertations, and six were theses. This production shows that FCI has been producing knowledge on IC, a developing area on its way to consolidation in Brazil, and publishing the results.