1 Injuries of repetitive efforts in workers from the 2 poultry meat industry : a bibliometric analysis of 3 literature 4 5 Alexandre Crespo

Injuries of repetitive efforts constitute one of the prime causes of absenteeism in the 18 workplace, have bear a considerable cost for the public health system and can cast doubt on the 19 sustainability of a company. The objective of this paper is to build, in the researchers, the needed 20 knowledge to choose a set of relevant scientific articles about repetitive strain injuries in the poultry 21 meat industry, aiming identify characteristics in those scientific publications that have the potential 22 to contribute on the topic of this paper. The research is characterized as exploratory-descriptive, 23 draws on primary and secondary data sources. The study involves the application of a method for 24 selection and analysis of the selected articles. To this end, the method utilized was the Knowledge 25 Development Process – Constructivist (Proknow-C) as theoretical intervention instrument. Within 26 the process development, it was obtained a portfolio of 16 articles aligned to the research and 27 scientifically recognized with the main periodicals, papers, authors and keywords. The ProKnow-C 28 process allowed identify opportunities in the literature about injuries in the poultry meat industry 29 and showed opportunities for research future. This paper, under the constructivist perspective, 30 presents a structured process to build, in the researcher, the necessary knowledge to identification, 31 selection and analysis of relevant scientific articles relating to research context and, for these 32 articles, find prominences and opportunities for a research theme without similar publications. 33