Evaluation of the relevance of scientific articles on obesity and overweight in Feira de Santana 2003 and 2010/ AVALIACAO DA RELEVANCIA DE ARTIGOS CIENTIFICOS SOBRE OBESIDADE E SOBREPESO EM FEIRA DE SANTANA DE 2003 A 2010

Considering that overweight and obesity represent a reality in the global context, including location, which has fostered growth of scientific production on the said topic, this research undertook research on the importance of published articles on obesity and overweight in Feira de Santana between 2003 to 2010. For this purpose, a literature search was performed to analyze the importance of production, taking into account the importance of organ and his publisher by the Web Qualis classification system used by the Coordination for Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) to assess the importance of scientific production. After removal of articles on the Virtual Health Library (Rev and BDENf) using the terms obesity, overweight, Fair, Santana, it was found that, of the four articles found, two (50%) fall into concepts considered less relevant for the scientific community, while the other two (50%) are classified as the most relevant.