Pesquisa-ação: estudo bibliométrico de artigos científicos indexados na base de dados Educ@

Abstract

This is a bibliometric study on action research. Action research is a research method with various definitions and investigation procedures. It is a type of collaborative and emancipatory scientific research that involves social action carried out by the stakeholders themselves. Given the specific nature of action research, a review of articles on this method proved to be an important scientific contribution. The key contribution of bibliometric research is the verification of impact, as this type of research aims to gauge, measure, analyze, for example, the number of publications, citations, the degree of circulation in scientific and strictly political environments. The general objectives were: To analyze the characteristics of academic production in articles with the theme of action research hosted on the Educ@ platform; To analyze the citations of the articles by means of a bibliometric study. The specific objectives were: a) To carry out a historical reconstruction and theoretical foundation of action research on the concept of action research and the fundamental works on this subject in order to contextualize the current state of the field. This bibliometry indicated that Price's index according to which 50% of academic production in a given field is carried out by the square root of the total number of authors could not be verified, as √ of 2013 authors (including theses, dissertations, articles, book chapters and books) is 45. The 45 authors together produced 318 works, which corresponded to 22.5% of the total of 1409 productions. Most of these were produced in the 2000s, with 616 studies (43.7% of 1409). It was also concluded that the bibliometrics of the articles provided a general picture of the studies that used action research as a method, and that some characteristics indicate the potential contribution of this method to education, both in teacher training and in raising awareness of issues such as race, gender and the environment. On the other hand, it is a method that is constantly being re-evaluated and undergoing debate in the scientific field.