Bibliometric analysis about the scientific production on the Social Skills Field

Authors

  • Eliane Colepicolo Universidade Federal de São Carlos – UFSCar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2014.191

Keywords:

Bibliometrics, Bibliometric indicators, Social skills, Social skills field

Abstract

Objective. This research consisted to contribute to the systematization of the theoretical and practical field of Social Skills, here called Social Skills Field (SSF). Method. A survey of a representative sample of CHS publications metadata extracted from the 15 scientific and technical literature databases in Psychology available in the CAPES Journals Portal was conducted. After treatment and refinement, this sample resulted in a corpus of metadata 25,409 scientific articles, which is a set of metadata publications, from fields such as author, title, subject, abstract, among others. The corpus of metadata stored in a database allowed the creation of a series of data crossing, resulting in bibliometric indicators. Results. As a result, we have: the SS Corpus, published on the Internet, which enables the inclusion of new metadata and the recovery of almost all scientific articles of the field; 2) bibliometric indicators in CHS, which may offer subsidies for the development and expansion of the field. Conclusions. Bibliometric indicators of the CHS show a representative production growth of social skills in the 1970s. Research on SS is mainly conducted by researchers from the United States, Brazil, United Kingdon and Denmark. The main subject studied are "social skills", "interpersonal relations", "social competence", "empathy", "assertividade", "assertiveness", "children", "adult", "college students"; and the major journals are: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Psychological Reports; Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders and Child Development.

Author Biography

Eliane Colepicolo, Universidade Federal de São Carlos – UFSCar

Doutora em Psicologia pela UFSCar, Mestre em Informática em Saúde pela Universidade Federal de São Paulo - UNIFESP/EPM e graduada em Ciência da Informação e Biblioteconomia pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos - UFSCar (1999), desde 2008 é Chefe da Seção de Acesso a Bases de Dados da Biblioteca Comunitária da UFSCar e pesquisadora interdisciplinar especialista em Estudos Bibliométricos e Cientométricos para avaliação de Áreas do Conhecimento e Campos de Pesquisa, tais como o Campo das Habilidades Sociais e a Informática em Saúde. Tem experiência em Ciências da Informação e Computação.

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Published

2015-05-07

How to Cite

Colepicolo, E. (2015). Bibliometric analysis about the scientific production on the Social Skills Field. Biblios Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, (57), 12–21. https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2014.191

Issue

No. 57 (2014)

Section

Original

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