Brazilian bibliometrics: diffusion of its literature

It analyzes the diffusion of literature on "metrics" (bibliometrics, scientometrics, infometrics, webmetrics, archivemetrics, technometrics, patentmetrics, etc.) produced and published in Brazil and by Brazilians abroad. In order to analyze the diffusion of this literature, the Bass Model of Innovations was used, since the literature is also a kind of an innovation. From 1973 to 2018, a total of 6170 documents produced by 9707 different authors, was identified. The Bass model of innovations estimated that the influence researchers receive from reading other documents on this subject in information systems is less than 1% (innovation coefficient). The coefficient of imitation that measures the influence that a group of adopters exerts on the adoption decisions of other potential adopters is equal to 22%. The parameter that estimates the saturation point of the field, predicts that this will be reached when 165450 documents have been published.