This work of monitoring the scientific production, the human resources and the partnerships of an organization of research, development and innovation is a demonstration of the different treatments and the possible combinations of data in bibliographical, operational, internal and external databases.
The study object is the biggest center of research, concerning the number of researchers, of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation - Embrapa, the Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, located in Brasilia, Brazil. The studied database is the Thomson-Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science (WOS). A search of all registers from 1977 to 2006 with mention of Embrapa in the authors' address was carried through. Some 4832 registers were found, of which, 634 made reference to the studied research center.
The results contribute to qualify the information available for the high management and to thus to improve their decisions.