Diversitas Journal (Sep 2018)
Analysis of the scientific production on plants with antioxidant, antimicrobial and allelopathic potential available in the Scielo base / Análise da produção científica sobre plantas com potencial antioxidante, antimicrobiano e alelopático disponíveis na base Scielo
Abstract
The use of bibliographic databases has been increasingly frequent by researchers, allowing to generate current knowledge and to determine new proposals from the information generated. The objective of this research was to perform a scientometric analysis to identify the number of publications on medicinal plants with antioxidant, antimicrobial and allelopathic potential, available in SciELO bibliographic databases. By means of an integrative review, the following variables were analyzed: type of research expression used, place of publication (country), name of the journal, language of publication, type of literature, year of publication and thematic area of publication, search platform. From the databases, we found 1,013 articles indexed in Scielo on antioxidant, antibacterial and allelopathic plants, from 1983 to July 2018, with the highest number of publications in Brazil. A greater number of publications of antioxidant and antimicrobial plants were detected in the Brazilian Journal of Pharmacognosy, and the journal Planta Daninha was highlighted for allelopathic plants. The subject allelopathic plants, regardless of the research expression, was the one that obtained the highest score with an average of 93 publications. The most used type of literature was a research paper. The largest number of publications in the areas of agrarian sciences, health sciences and biological sciences was observed for the subjects antioxidant and antimicrobial. On the subject of allelopathic plants, the areas of agrarian sciences and biological sciences were highlighted. The research with antioxidant and allelopathic plants, present a larger quantitative than with antimicrobial plants, in the Scielo base.
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