RELAÇÕES ENTRE A PRODUÇÃO CIENTÍFICA E A PRODUÇÃO AGROPECUÁRIA BRASILEIRA SOB O VIÉS DE UM ESTUDO BIBLIOMÉTRICO.

This study compares Brazilian Agricultural Sciences scientific production and Brazilian agricultural production as highlighted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, for each federative unit. In methodological terms, the scientific production is measured by bibliometric indicators of production and thematic association using BibExcel, Excel, and VOSviewer software. The study corpus is composed of 109.084 scientific papers indexed by Scopus between 2008 and 2017. The heterogeneous distribution of the Brazilian scientific production in Agricultural Sciences was demonstrated for all Brazilian states. The keywords analysis revealed that the most common research topic was Brazilian' Socioeconomics Policies, a research goal established by the National Graduate Plan (2010-2020). In conclusion, the correspondence between scientific production in Agricultural Sciences and agricultural production was found, once 19 out of 26 agricultural products identified by the Ministry as relevant to the Brazilian economy were present among the most frequent keywords. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]