This research questions the possibilities offered by citation studies, in interlocution with the bases of genealogical-intellectual theory, that allow to perceive affiliations and contrapositions of scientific thinking, identifying the main groups, schools of thought and their relational unfolding throughout the generations in the information science, particularly in the scientific production of the stock exchange researchers of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Part of Lloyd's (1995, 18) argument that the validity of a scientific study lies in the search for articulation of empirical research with a theoretical and methodological framework that favors the understanding of the scientific object. It aims to understand the dynamics of the most evident relations between the scientific production of the set of 23 researchers of levels 1 and Senior, of the CNPq area of CI, with scholarships in force between the years 2008 and 2017, and the theoretical ascendant referents that guide this production. To achieve this purpose, it identifies and analyzes the theoretical references of this universe, highlighting the evolution of these relations from a corpus consisting of 598 standardized articles from the period between 1972 and 2017, collected from the Brapci database. It maps the relationships between cited authors, citations and years of publication, using The Vantage Point® software. It emphasizes the constellations constituted by researchers like Guimarães and Fujita; Kobashi, Lara and Tálamo; Barreto and González de Gomez; Amaral and Robredo. It points out, the genealogical theoretical relations perceptible in: Farradane, Barreto and González de Gomez; Smit and Guimarães, among others. It distinguishes thematic approaches in groups that link authors with the same theoretical nuclei. Kobashi (PQ1) is the most present in the set of quotations of the pairs themselves, among which are also Mueller, Guimarães, Lara and Barreto, who are referents for representatives of different institutions. Although the network seems egocentric, centered on PQ1 and Senior, its quoted outside the list of analyzed PQs intermediate relations, bringing evidence of common theoretical affiliation, such as: Bourdieu intermediating Marteleto and Bufrem, Meadows intermediating Bufrem and Mueller, Foskett intermediating Fujita and Guimarães, among others. It lists the quotations from the 1970s to the 2010 and points out that the authors with the longest stay in the period are not always the most cited. It indicates the presence of the referents in three decades: Robredo, present in the first three; Mueller, in the second, third and fourth decade; and Bourdieu and Barreto, who remain in the last three. Although it appears only in the last decade, Hjørland has expressive representativeness in the computation. In the last two decades, González de Gomez is the most cited among the authors, Kobashi, Lancaster, Guimarães, Lara, Cunha, Habermas, Saracevic and Tálamo are the set of referents, among which the highlighted in previous research (Bufrem, Silva & Sobral, 2017). Finally, it states that every descendant, albeit with an individual and original creative project, receives mediating influences from his ascendants, in the field in which he acts, influenced by the spirit of time and the consciousness of belonging to a consistent theoretical lineage.
On the Criteria for Receiving a Research Productivity Fellowship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development in Mathematics and Statistics