  This work presents a preliminary study of 147 relativistic mean-field (RMF)
hadronic models used in the literature, regarding their behavior in the nuclear
matter regime. We analyze here different kinds of such models, namely: (i)
linear models, (ii) nonlinear \sigma^3+\sigma^4 models, (iii)
\sigma^3+\sigma^4+\omega^4 models, (iv) models containing mixing terms in the
fields \sigma and \omega, (v) density dependent models, and (vi) point-coupling
ones. In the finite range models, the attractive (repulsive) interaction is
described in the Lagrangian density by the \sigma (\omega) field. The isospin
dependence of the interaction is modeled by the \rho meson field. We submit
these sets of RMF models to eleven macroscopic (experimental and empirical)
constraints, used in a recent study in which 240 Skyrme parametrizations were
analyzed. Such constraints cover a wide range of properties related to
symmetric nuclear matter (SNM), pure neutron matter (PNM), and both SNM and
PNM.
