The impact of Pierre Bourdieu's The Forms of Capital in international scientific literature
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https://doi.org/10.26512/rici.v12.n1.2019.19527Keywords:
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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