Fontes teóricas sobre representações sociais: um perfil bibliométrico de textos citados em periódicos científicos nacionais da área de Saúde

Abstract

In activities leading to the formulation of policies and services, in either research or education, it can be seen that the processes of acquisition and utilization of empirical data are not always anchored in theoretical foundation. At the same time theoretical formulations appears as alienated from experience.On the other hand, a qualitative approach and an increasing adherence of researchers basing their methodology on the Social Representations Theory (SRT) seem to be more present in Health scientific publications. Through the analysis of citations applied to 45 reports of SRT-based empirical work, 69 bibliographical sources of that theory have been identified. This paper presents a list of such sources as a way to favoring the search by students or researchers concerned with the subject. Also, a bibliometrical profile was drawn of various aspects of those sources and of their recurrence within the group under analysis.

Teoria das representações sociais nos estudos organizacionais no Brasil: análise bibliométrica de 2001 a 2014

“…As a synthesis of the results, we can observe that the evolution of the utilization of SRT in OS may be divided into two distinct periods: (1) the first beginning in 2001 and ending in 2007, in which 18 articles were published, representing an average of 2.5 articles a year; and (2) the second lasting from 2008 to 2014, with a total of 72 articles published, representing an average of 10.3 articles a year. A comparative analysis of these results with similar studies of the use of SRT in the areas of health, nursing and psychology, among others (RUMMLER, 2007;SILVA, MARTINI and BECKER;2011;WACHELKE, MATOS, FERREIRA et al, 2015), indicates that the use of SRT in OS is still incipient, but it has revealed itself to be a relevant theory in the understanding of organizational phenomena.…”

“…In order to validate the identification of these two periods in terms of references, it's useful to have references with similar research results. For comparison purposes, we can present three studies: (1) a study of 45 health articles published in domestic scientific periodicals which was conducted from 2002 to 2004(RUMMLER, 2007; (2) a study of nursing from 2001 to 2007, which identified 167 studies using SRT, 129 of these being theses and 38 being dissertations (SILVA, MARTINI and BECKER, 2011); and (3) a biblioGraph study performed based on the PsycINFO (American Psychological Association), Scientific Eletronic Library Online (Scielo.org), MedLine Complete (EBSCOHost), and Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest) databases, between August and September 2013, in which 2,526 abstracts related to SRT were identified, published in periodicals indexed by these databases (WACHELKE, MATOS, FERREIRA et al, 2015).…”