It verbalizes the influence of electronic communication over scientific knowledge production in the Physics space of the State University of Campinas between the begin of the decades of 1980, 1990 and 2000. It is verified if the most including and fast access to the scientific information, proportionate for the Electronic Journals and its Collections or Search Engines, has caused to modifications in the cognoscente citizen. Through of the correlation between data of dissertations/thesis and removed data of its bibliographical references (articles of journal cited and years of publication), it is concluded that the researchers are citing more articles of journal and more quickly, perhaps for account of the phenomenon of the electronic communication.
Electronic journals; Electronic communication; Scientific production; Cognition; Bibliometrics; Dissertations and thesis
