The impact of Pierre Bourdieu's The Forms of Capital in international scientific literature

Authors

  • Maurício de Vargas Corrêa Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biblioteconomia e Comunicação, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
  • Gonzalo Rubén Alvarez Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biblioteconomia e Comunicação, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
  • Samile Andrea de Souza Vanz Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biblioteconomia e Comunicação, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
  • Sônia Elisa Caregnato Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biblioteconomia e Comunicação, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/rici.v12.n1.2019.19527

Keywords:

Pierre Bourdieu. citation analysis.

Abstract

It addresses the impact of Pierre Bourdieu's work The Forms of Capital in the international scientific literature by analyzing its citations in scientific publications. Through a bibliometric study, 5,631 documents indexed in the Web of Science database that cited the work since its publication until 2016, were analyzed and characterized according to the year of publication, language, documentary typology, publication periodical, areas of knowledge, institutions and countries. The results suggest (1) the exponential growth of the volume of citations received, (2) english as predominant language in citation publications, (3) the expressivity of  scientific papers and articles citations, (4) citation articles in 1,637 titles of periodicals, (5) Sociology, Education and Educational Research and Management as the areas that most cited the work of the author, (6) the formation of clusters of theoretically related terms and the existence of investigation lines inside the corpus (7) the variety of citing institutions and (8) the concentration of citation publications in the countries of North America, Europe and Oceania. It concludes that the impact of The Forms of Capital work could be observed in the scientific output of several countries and areas of knowledge.

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Author Biographies

Maurício de Vargas Corrêa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biblioteconomia e Comunicação, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

Doutorando no Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação e Informação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

Gonzalo Rubén Alvarez, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biblioteconomia e Comunicação, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

Doutorando no Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação e Informação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

Samile Andrea de Souza Vanz, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biblioteconomia e Comunicação, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

Professora no Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação e Informação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

Sônia Elisa Caregnato, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biblioteconomia e Comunicação, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

Professora no Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação e Informação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

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Published

2018-11-21

How to Cite

Corrêa, M. de V., Rubén Alvarez, G., Vanz, S. A. de S., & Caregnato, S. E. (2018). The impact of Pierre Bourdieu’s The Forms of Capital in international scientific literature. Revista Ibero-Americana De Ciência Da Informação, 12(1), 217–232. https://doi.org/10.26512/rici.v12.n1.2019.19527

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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2019): Revista Ibero-americana de Ciência da Informação

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