The organization of knowledge: bibliometric study in database ISI Web of Knowledge

The Organization of Knowledge is an area of multiple applications and very traditional in research / teaching in Information Science. Most of the literature deals with the process, activities and tools specially developed for the treatment of documents for storage, dissemination, retrieval and use of information systems and services. This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of scientific activity in the field of Knowledge Organization, using publications database ISI Web of Science - WoS. The importance of bibliometric study is underpinned by the need to understand and evaluate and measure research productivity and authors, allowing the detection of designs and patterns on the Organization of Knowledge. The methodological procedures are exploratory-descriptive and some steps have been established to better deployment: a literature review to support the research, identification database, preparation of expression search, data collection, organization and bibliometric treatment with Vantage Point software and finally graphical representations with the aid of Microsoft Excel. Among the search results, it is noteworthy that in 20 years there is a steady growth of scientific publications on Knowledge Organization and the country that leads the ranking of the fastest publish on the subject is Canada, Brazil being the eighth.