title: Bibliometric study on nursing theses and dissertations employing a phenomenological approach: tendency and perspectives.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of São Paulo, Brazil. merighi@usp.br
authors.forename: Miriam Ap Barbosa
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Merighi
authors.forename: Roselane
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gonçalves
authors.forename: Fernanda Cristina
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Ferreira
mesh_terms: D004212:Academic Dissertations as Topic; D015706:Bibliometrics; D001938:Brazil; D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing; D015399:Nursing Research; D012189:Retrospective Studies