COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PRODUCTION ON JANE AUSTEN IN LATTES AND INTERNATIONAL INDEXERS

Abstract

This work addresses the use of the Lattes Curriculum as a strategic source for bibliometric studies in fields with low coverage in the main traditional databases, such as the Humanities and Literature. The objective of the research is to compare the process of searching and identifying results in the recognized databases of the Modern Language Association, the Scientific Electronic Library Online, Scopus, and Web of Science, and the Lattes Curriculum. The English author Jane Austen was chosen as the subject for the survey. Regarding the methodological procedures, a search was conducted on the Lattes platform and custom Python scripts were developed for the automated extraction of the curricula's numerical identifiers and data retrieval via the scriptLattes software. Simple and advanced searches with filters were also performed in the four selected databases. The results demonstrate 1,468 bibliographic productions in Lattes, while the international databases Scopus, Web of Science, and Modern Language Association presented significant volumes, but concentrated in the Global North and the English language. The Scientific Electronic Library Online database presented the lowest volume of data. In the final considerations, we highlight that scriptLattes proved to be an instrument capable of filling the search gaps of the Lattes platform, enabling in-depth bibliometric analyses of Brazilian scientific research.