Hoppen Natascha Helena Franz, Vanz Samile Andréa de Souza
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Scientometrics. 2023;128(1):227-261. doi: 10.1007/s11192-022-04545-w. Epub 2022 Nov 21.
This study analyzes the characteristics and development of Brazilian research on women's and gender studies using a new comprehensive data source that is still hardly explored in bibliometric studies called 1Findr. The search expression forms a part of a methodological proposition for similar studies, based on the literature review of other analogous studies and on the historical and current characteristics of Brazil. We analyzed 31,609 Brazilian articles on women's and gender studies based on bibliometric indicators including activity, collaboration, and thematic association, with excerpts from the 1970s to 2019. Our results show that, initially, research was linked to the health sciences and was carried out in institutions in the Southeast and South of the country; however, this trend started changing since the 1990s, when two journals specialized in the area were first developed in Brazil and when researchers in the human and social sciences started working with this subject. Since then, the volume of articles, collaboration, and research has grown throughout the country, although production is still concentrated in the Southeast and South. Federal public universities are the main research actors, and researchers prioritize national journals and the Portuguese language. However, the main characteristic, which increases over time, is plurality: in relation to science in general and to other areas of Brazilian research, women's and gender studies present a greater plurality in terms of its publication characteristics, for example, in relation to the amount and percentage of languages. Plurality is also observed in the fact that, over the years, researchers from new disciplines have started to publish on gender studies, making the area more and more inter- and multidisciplinary, and also consolidating it scientifically, in the sense that it has become a subject of interest for all areas of research. Its presence in journals with the best ratings in the Brazilian research system supports the understanding that this is a scientifically consolidated area. In contrast, despite its continuous growth, collaboration is a rare phenomenon, and specific characteristics of studies carried out with foreign partners can be observed. Collaboration clusters among national institutions are characterized, among other factors, by their geographic proximity and the central role of major universities, such as Universidade de São Paulo, and others associated with the history of the area in the country, such as Universidade de Campinas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. The dataset obtained, prepared, and used in the present research is available for new studies.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11192-022-04545-w.
本研究利用一个新的综合数据源分析了巴西妇女与性别研究的特点及发展情况，该数据源在文献计量研究中仍未得到充分探索，名为1Findr。基于对其他类似研究的文献综述以及巴西的历史和现状特征，搜索表达式构成了类似研究方法命题的一部分。我们根据文献计量指标，包括活跃度、合作情况和主题关联，分析了1970年代至2019年期间巴西关于妇女与性别研究的31609篇文章。我们的研究结果表明，最初，研究与健康科学相关，且在该国东南部和南部的机构中开展；然而，自1990年代以来这种趋势开始发生变化，当时巴西首次创办了两本该领域的专业期刊，人文和社会科学领域的研究人员也开始涉足这一主题。从那时起，尽管研究成果仍集中在东南部和南部，但全国范围内的文章数量、合作以及研究都有所增长。联邦公立大学是主要的研究主体，研究人员优先选择国内期刊和葡萄牙语。然而，随着时间推移不断增加的主要特征是多元性：与一般科学以及巴西其他研究领域相比，妇女与性别研究在其出版特征方面呈现出更大的多元性，例如，在语言数量和百分比方面。多年来，来自新学科的研究人员开始发表性别研究方面的文章，这一领域越来越具有跨学科和多学科性质，并且在科学上得到巩固，从这个意义上说，它已成为所有研究领域感兴趣的主题，这一事实也体现了多元性。它在巴西研究体系中评级最高的期刊上的出现支持了这样一种认识，即这是一个在科学上得到巩固的领域。相比之下，尽管合作持续增长，但仍是一种罕见现象，并且可以观察到与外国合作伙伴开展的研究的具体特征。国内机构之间的合作集群的特点包括地理位置接近以及圣保罗大学等主要大学的核心作用，以及与该国该地区历史相关的其他大学，如坎皮纳斯大学、圣卡塔琳娜联邦大学和南里奥格兰德联邦大学。本研究中获取、准备和使用的数据集可供新的研究使用。
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