Thesis and Dissertation Catalog as a source for bibliometric studies in the field of Professional Education

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Jessica Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Medeiros Neta, Olivia Morais de, Nascimento, Francinaide de Lima Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/1210
• topic: Educação Profissional; Bibliometria; Campo científico.; Educación Profesional; Bibliometría; Campo científico.; Professional education; Bibliometry; Scientific field.

This research aims to demonstrate how bibliometric studies can be performed with the aid of the Thesis and Dissertation Catalog, a tool enabled by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) and Iramuteq Software. The research deals with a descriptive approach, using the principles of data collection such as previously planned action, documental analysis as well as statistical guidelines for quantitative representation. Theoretical approach relied on theories such as ones present in works of Bardin (1977), Bourdieu (1994), Vanti (2002) and Vieira (2008), amongst others. Thus, the Open source Iramuteq Software was used for unstructured data systematization and aimed to demonstrate the recurrences and relations in results of the Search Query. This research aims to indicate the main characteristics and their representation that enable bibliometric studies in the field of Professional Education. This field of study represents a possible dialogue between education and the work field. It presents stricto sensu Postgraduate Programs, regulated by CAPES. In this realm, data is controlled by the Sucupira Platform that in turn, considers data aggregation and collection as well as a means of managerial-operational control used in order to monitor post-graduation programs.  Amongst these tools is the Thesis and Dissertation Catalog  aims to disseminate information on scholarly productions in Master´s degree and PhD levels. The tool presents the abstracts and the bibliographical references present in these works. It is concluded that, in addition to being pertinent and feasible, the procedure used demonstrated as a viable tool for the elaboration of bibliometric surveys in the area of Professional Education. The collection of dissertations and thesis on the featured platform allowed to retrieve scholarly productions enabling an overview of this scientific field.