摘要：This paper presents some views we have been developing about the indicators of the intellectual production of the Brazilian scientific community, among them we have paid particular at tent ion to books. As researchers f rom postgraduate programs in Physical Education, in Area 21 from the Big Area of Health, we have privileged the debate on the indicators’ features, limits and possibilities for a qualitative appreciation of the intellectual production in particular for those being published in the Social and Human Sciences in the field of health, in this case, the socio-cultural and pedagogical sub-fields of Physical Education.
关键词：Scientific publication indicators. Books. Research performance evaluation systems. Bibliometrics.;Indicadores de producción científica. Libros. Sistemas de creditos y evaluación de investigadores. Bibliometría.;Indicadores de produção científica. Livros. Sistemas de créditos e avaliação de pesquisadores. Bibliometria.
