Scientific production in periodic accounting related the capital market

This article provides a longitudinal overview of the articles published with respect to the capital market in Brazilian academic journals during the period from 1998 to 2008. The sample is composed of 50 scientific articles published in the journals ranked as A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 and C by Qualis / CAPES for the Management, Accounting and Tourism area for the 2009/2011 triennium. A Bibliometric study was undertaken, aided by the software UNICET (R). Results reveal that (i) the journal publishing the largest number of articles on the subject of interest was the Journal of Accounting and Finance "B1", (ii) the topic most frequently addressed was that of shares, (iii) only two authors stood out as publishing frequently on matters related to the stock market, (iv) the networks of collaboration between the authors, can be characterized scattered and having weak ties, and (v) only the University of Sao Paulo appeared as central in the network of relationships. Two institutions served as intermediate nodes: the Capixaba Foundation and Research Institute in Accounting and the Federal University of Santa Catarina. The remaining 28 institutions of learning represented are located in the periphery of the network.