Levantamento bibliométrico da produção científica brasileira sobre a Dipteryx odorata no período de 2009 a 2018

Abstract

Dipteryx odorata is a native Amazonian species and popularly known as cumaru. Its wood is high density and is widely used in construction. From the cumaru seed is extracted the coumarin oil. The oil is used as an essence fixer and is widely used for this purpose in the cosmetics industry. The present work carried out a bibliometric review about the species Dipteryx odorata in the last 10 years in order to evaluate the emphasis and dynamics of publications regarding the species. For the search, the following keywords were used: “Dipteryx odorata, cumaru and cumaru-ferro”, which was then applied to search filtering by years and by country, obtaining a sample of 60 publications that cited any of the keywords. As main results it was found that there was an increase of publications over the years in the study period. Most articles citing cumaru fit into the area of knowledge of forestry and management. Pará is the state that leads with the number of publications about cumaru, while Embrapa is the most published research institution about the species.