REVERSE LOGISTICS: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF BRAZILIAN JOURNAL PUBLISHED IN PERIOD FROM 2003 TO 2012

This paper aims to identify the evolution of publications on reverse logistics in national professional journals such as A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, B4 and B5 of the Coordination for Improvement of Higher Education in 2012 - Qualis/CAPES 2012. It is a bibliometric study with predominantly quantitative approach was to extract selection criteria established in the objective, national periodicals with publications in electronic media. From a universe of 872 national journals in various fields of study contains 452 publications, electronic media, with papers dated in the decade spanning the years 2003 to 2012 In the search, 61 articles were located in 36 different journals. Among the results, it is observed that the southeastern and southern regions are those that concentrate a greater number of publications on the topic researched, with 87% of total publications. It is evident that 14 periodicals are responsible for the publication of articles and 64% of that 29% of the publications are in journals classified as B3. A total of 170 authors identified, 10 have participated in the production of 46% of articles and 90.0% of the authors are linked to any higher education institution, concentrated mainly in the southeastern region of the country. We observe a strong correlation with the theme of environmental issues, where five of the 10 keywords that appear most are related to environmental responsibility. As the evolution of the topic, it is observed that the number of authors and volume of articles published on the topic has increased since 2003, where the summit was the year 2012 with 34 writers and 11 publications. Yet the theory and practice relation was present in 60.5% of the articles, especially the industrial sector with 19 applications and the branch of electronics applications with eight. The study contributes to the evidence, in the national context, who authors serve as reference for the area, journals that publish on the topic, and the topics addressed some indication that the area continues to expand.