%0 Journal Article %T An extraction of the skewing factor from DESY-HERA data %A Favart %A Laurent %A Machado %A Magno V. T. %A Schoeffel %A Laurent %J Brazilian Journal of Physics %D 2007 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0103-97332007000500031 %X in this contribution we present recent investigation on the extraction of the skewing factor, defined as the ratio of the imaginary parts of the amplitudes im ${\cal a}$(g* p £¿ g* p)/ im ${\cal a}$(g* p £¿ g p). this factor is extracted from the data using the recent dvcs and the inclusive inelastic cross section measurements at desy-hera. we compare the results to the theoretical predictions for nlo qcd and the color dipole approach. %K deeply virtual compton scattering %K high energy physics %K small-x physics %K saturation models. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-97332007000500031&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en