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LEITE, Bruno Dias Florêncio; MENEZES, Taiana Brito  e  NORO, Luiz Roberto Augusto. Bibliometric analysis of undergraduate final work in a Northeast Brazilian Dental School. Rev. ABENO [online]. 2015, vol.15, n.3, pp. 16-25. ISSN 1679-5954.

The aim of the study was to identify trends in scientific production of the dentistry course, by Undergraduate Final Work (Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso - TCC), which are the development of a research by undergraduate student, based on the need of knowledge production and continuing education. It is a bibliometric research through cross-sectional, observational descriptive study with a quantitative approach. It was observed predominance of cross-sectional studies, developed with humans, focused on clinical area and 82% performed with primary data. Of the total, 62% were submitted to the ethics committee in research. It was observed that 81% of the references cited were journal articles, 11% books, 3% theses and dissertations, and 5% other documents, in particular websites or official publications. The TCC must be understood as fundamental to stimulate creativity achievement, lifelong learning and the pursuit of knowledge by students from the research and not merely a task required by the Pedagogic Project. It would be also important to emphasize the construction of projects consistent with the principles of the National Curriculum Guidelines of Dentistry courses, particularly with studies to commit the advances in the Unified Health System research. The profile of scientific production from UFRN dental course conducted for TCC is mostly sectional studies on clinical area, with primary data collection, which are obtained in own premises of the course. Most of the projects are submitted to the CEP and uses scientific articles as references.

Palavras-chave : Bibliometrics.; Scientific Publication Indicators.; Dentistry..