摘要:Bibliometric study on the production and use of information in scientific papers presented at the Journalism Reseach Group in Intercom XXX Brazilian Congress of Communication Sciences in 2007; SBPJor - Fourth National Encounter of Researchers in Journalism (2006), and Compós- XVI Annual Encounter in 2007. The corpus of 213 papers was analyzed by authoring and co-authoring, thematic and methodological procedures: empirical, theoretical or applied. The 3835 citations of the papers were analyzed by the document type (books, congresses, journals, theses), online accessibility, and by criteria as nuclear publications, most cited authors and the average life of literature used.