This article reports a search’s analysis at the database Library and Information Science Abstracts, using the terms scientific communication and ontology. The objective was to analyze search’s possibilities in reference databases with emphasis on metadata standards and interoperability among systems. The methodology is exploratory and descriptive, documental and quant-qualitative; it employs the bibliometric soft wares Infotrans and Dataview for the analysis of the 129 obtained results in the bibliographic survey of data tabulation and analyses. It concludes that the databases and soft wares differ significantly, fact which demands strict standards of metadata to enable efficient and accurate results in searches as well as the utilization of bibliometric tools for analysis and discussion of obtained documents, in order to improve the quantitative indicators of scientific production.
Scientific communication; Ontology; Bibliometric tools