Thematic and Methodological Divisions in Brazilian Political Science

[Paulo Pasta

Foto: Casa Vogue] 

The research accomplished a deep investigation into the thematic and methodological landscape of Brazilian Political Science (BPS), identifying the main areas of research and methodological approaches within the field. It analyzed 1849 PhD theses and Master's dissertations between 2013 and 2020, uncovering five distinct thematic communities and their methodological preferences. This study is important as it highlights the consolidation, specialization, and institutionalization of BPS, revealing a structured and diversified scientific community with a clear thematic organization and methodological coherence. The findings provide a foundation for understanding the current state of the discipline and suggest areas for further exploration, indicating BPS's maturity and its contribution to global political science discussions.

A pesquisa realizou uma investigação profunda sobre a paisagem temática e metodológica da Ciência Política Brasileira (CPB), identificando as principais áreas de pesquisa e abordagens metodológicas dentro do campo. Analisou 1849 teses de doutorado e dissertações de mestrado entre 2013 e 2020, descobrindo cinco comunidades temáticas distintas e suas preferências metodológicas. Este estudo é importante pois destaca a consolidação, especialização e institucionalização da CPB, revelando uma comunidade científica estruturada e diversificada com uma clara organização temática e coerência metodológica. Os resultados fornecem uma base para entender o estado atual da disciplina e sugerem áreas para exploração futura, indicando a maturidade da CPB e sua contribuição para as discussões globais de ciência política

Como citar:

Sainz, N., Codato, A., Silva, R. da ., & Clemente, A.. (2024). Separate Tables: Thematic and Methodological Divisions in Brazilian Political Science. Brazilian Political Science Review, 18(1), e0007. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981-3821202400010006

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Medindo a Ciência Política brasileira: uma exploração inicial através do h índice

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https://sci2s.ugr.es/hindex] 

Medindo a Ciência Política brasileira: uma exploração inicial através do h índice

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.16372.83844

Conference: 46o. Encontro anual da ANPOCS: 

MR08. Circulação e impacto nas ciências sociais contemporâneas

At: Campinas - SP

Affiliation: University of Campinas

October 2022

Adriano Codato

Dalson Figueiredo

Gabryela Gabriel

Nilton Sainz

Rodrigo Silva

Project: The scientific field of Brazilian Political Science

RESUMO

A pesquisa é um trabalho em curso com dados ainda muito preliminares. O objetivo é entender, a partir de um critério quantitativo, as hierarquias que se formam em um determinado espaço científico. A partir da replicação dos procedimentos do artigo de Kim e Grofman 2019 (The Political Science 400: With Citation Counts by Cohort, Gender, and Subfield), mensuramos o número de citações no Google Scholar dos sujeitos da pesquisa (docentes nos Programas de CP, RI, PP, Defesa no Brasil. N = 195). Os dados foram coletados de modo automatizado através de uma rotina em R que permitiu a raspagem automática das informações do Google Scholar de três indicadores: total de citações; h índice; i10. Os dados foram agrupados por Programas de pós graduação e por indivíduos. Nesse caso, o atributo analisado até o momento foi o gênero do(as) pesquisadores(as). Considerando o Índice h: não há diferença significativa entre o impacto científico de homens e mulheres, apesar da ligeira vantagem dos homens. Quanto maior a nota CAPES do Programa de pós-graduação, mais há pesquisadores(as) de destaque, o que sugere uma coerência entre duas escalas diferentes de prestígio, institucional e individual (CAPES e N de citações).

Definition: (Hirsch JE (2005) An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102:16569-16572, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507655102 

A scientist has index h if h of his or her Np papers have at least h citations each and the other (Np - h) papers have ≤ h citations each.

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A Scientometric Review of Global Research on Political Elites

[Donald Trump

photo: medium, 2017] 

Political elites are a long-established research topic in the field of Political Science and Political Sociology. 

Several traditional literature reviews have been published on the subject, discussing the most employed methodologies, outlining the research panorama in specific countries, or making comparative assessments of the state of the art. 

In an attempt to acquire a clearer understanding of the intellectual landscape of the research on political elites, we performed a quantitative scientometric review of 921 papers published between 1958 and 2021 indexed in the Scopus database. 

The results showed that the number of articles published has increased rapidly, especially since 2010. 

The reference literature showed that political elites is a theme very closely associated with the performance of representative democracies. 

An overview of this study area showed that the bibliography is first ordered by countries or regions and later by subject. 

Among the many subjects discussed, studies about elites in former soviet nations stand out. As we look specifically into the production in Latin America, we find a research field structured around Chile and Brazil and a division between, on the one hand, Political Science studies and, on the other, Political Sociology studies heavily influenced by the French Sociology of Elites.

Como citar:

Codato, Adriano; Silva, Rodrigo; Perich, Rafael; Bittencourt, Maiane; Lorencetti, Mariana. A Scientometric Review of Global Research on Political Elites. Pléyade. Revista de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, v. 28, p. 56-83, 2021. https://www.revistapleyade.cl/index.php/OJS/article/view/338

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Political Science in Latin America: A Scientometric Analysis

[Visualization of the network of reciprocal citations 

between the 23 journals in the corpus of the study forming three clusters] 

artigo

Adriano Codato, Rafael Madeira, Maiane Bittencourt 

Political Science in Latin America: A Scientometric Analysis

Brazilian Political Science Review 2020 14 (3):e0007. DOI: 10.1590/1981-3821202000030005

Studies of Latin American political science are centered on analyses of national cases and are based on intellectual narratives about the institutional development and teaching of the discipline. In this article we take a different, more comprehensive and comparative approach. We distinguish and contrast two Latin American political sciences: one native to Latin America and published in journals from five countries in the region, and one foreign and published in journals from five countries outside the region. We use three types of bibliometric measures: 01. reciprocal citations in 23 academic journals indexed in the Scopus database; 02. co-occurrence of terms in titles and abstracts of 5,880 research articles published between 2006 and 2018; and 03. co-citations of authors in the bibliographies of said articles. The network of journals forms a well-defined archipelago with three clusters separated by language (English, Spanish and Portuguese). The community is divided along two main axes: political approaches versus sociological approaches. The study also points out that themes, authors, and methodologies are not significantly different between these two political sciences.

Keywords: bibliometric methods; Latin American Political Science; political science journals; Science mapping; theoretical traditions

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