20 Years of rPOT and the Role of Scientific Journals in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

rPOT (Psychology Journal of Organizations and Work / Revista Psicologia: Organizações e Trabalho) celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2021. In rPOT’s June 2001 Editorial, the first editor of rPOT celebrated the moment of joy when Brazil finally had a scientific journal specialized in Work and Organizational Psychology (WOP) that could serve researchers, teachers, students, and other professionals interested in this field (Zanelli, 2001). Since then, rPOT has become an important source of access to specialized, free, and qualified knowledge, playing a fundamental role in the dissemination of information in the area of Organizations and Work, in Portuguese. During this period, 60 issues and 551 articles were published, including this issue, reflecting a trajectory of dissemination of scientific knowledge in different domains of WOP (POT) and its related areas. A quick analysis of the scientific production published by rPOT during this period, based on a resource of textual data analysis, provided by the IRAMUTEQ software (Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires / R Interface for Multidimensional Analyses of Texts and Questionnaires), allows us to highlight some relevant aspects.