Scientometric and bibliometric of the Person-Centered Approach and Gestalt Therapy field in Brazil: analysis of authorship and production networks

• Autor(a) principal: Branco, Paulo Coelho Castelo
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Farias, Heitor Blesa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Phenomenology, Humanities and Sciences
• Texto Completo: https://phenomenology.com.br/index.php/phe/article/view/6
• topic: Bibliometria; Gestalt-Terapia; Indicadores Científicos; Psicologia Humanista; Terapia Centrada no Cliente; Bibliometric; Gestalt Therapy; Science Indicators; Humanistic Psychology; Client Centered Therapy

According to a scientometric perspective, we aim to analyze the productions and relationships of the Person-Centered Approach (PCA) and Gestalt-Therapy, to understand how this field is organized in Brazil. Initially, we explain the scientometry and field notions, according to Bourdieu. Then, we present the bibliometric method used according to the R language, from your package Bibliometrix and what we have developed as a new function for collect metadata. The results and discussions points to: publications extension between 2008-2017, as a result of recent educational expansions, (virtual) journals, and phenomenological academic events; variety of humanistic and general journals, being the two most productive ones linked to extra-academic gestalt institutions; occurrence of Lotka's Law, in which few persons constantly publish many studies on PCA and Gestalt-Therapy, while many other authors occasionally publish it; dominance factors mixed between authors consolidated in the field and new production figures; existence of nine isolated groups, two pairs of interrelated groups and a predominance of groups with few productions. We conclude with suggestions for further researches in the field and a meta-analysis on Gestalt-Therapy Centered in Person