The history of psychology is a field of research, debate, teaching, and professional training which has been circulating in Brazil and in other countries from several academic and cultural manifestations. This study describes and analyses Brazilian articles on the history of psychology published between 1996 and 2019. A total of 112 texts were categorized into three major groups, as follows: profile of authors, characteristics of the paper, and study aspects. Our results suggest a preponderance of female lead author. Regardless of gender, there is a prevalence of PhDs as the first author, with a predominant institutional affiliation from the Southeast of the country. These texts deal mainly with some themes, such as education, history of psychological knowledge, and politics. Finally, our results suggest that there is no homogeneity in the term “history of psychology”, which is connected to both historiographic works and studies that make “historical” or “introduction/conceptualization” of themes, as well as the occurrence of titles, abstracts and keywords that are not very precise.
Keywords:
bibliometric analysis, bibliometrics, history of psychology
Farias, A. F., Souza, G. S., Vargas da Fonseca Silva, R. ., Sales, A. C., Branco, P. C. C., Polanco, F., & Lopes Miranda, R. (2021). Mapping Studies in History of Psychology in Brazil: Bibliometric Analysis. Revista De Psicología, 30(1). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-0581.2021.56681
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