Bibliometric study on nursing theses and dissertations employing a phenomenological approach: tendency and perspectives.
This study aimed to analyze the scientific production of nursing dissertations and theses with a phenomenological approach published from 1981 to 2002. A descriptive, retrospective and bibliometric research was carried out. The material analysis, which is part of the database of the catalogue Information on Nursing Research and Researchers, resulted in 217 studies, 71,9% from the master's course and 28,1% from the doctoral course. Among the obtained results, it stands out that the theoretical-philosophical reference chosen to support the data discussion found in investigations has not been used emphatically. There is a need to discuss the unveiled data, through the subjects' discourse, in the light of the philosophical reference framework mentioned in the research trajectory.
Merighi
Miriam Ap Barbosa
MA
School of Nursing, University of São Paulo, Brazil. merighi@usp.br
Gonçalves
Roselane
R
Ferreira
Fernanda Cristina
FC
D004212:Academic Dissertations as Topic; D015706:Bibliometrics; D001938:Brazil; D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing; D015399:Nursing Research; D012189:Retrospective Studies