The profile of sports-related articles produced in physical education graduate programs (2010-2016)

Abstract

From a quantitative-qualitative perspective, we investigated some features of sports-related articles published by Physical Education graduate programs from 2010 to 2016. Our sources of information were the programs’ annual reports and the articles themselves. The programs published 3,252 articles, and the most productive ones were PPGEFE/EEFE/USP, PPGFEF/UNICAMP, and PPGEF/UEM-UEL. Most articles are related to biodynamics (70%), followed by the socio-cultural (21%) and pedagogic (8%) subfields. PPGEFE/EEFE/USP stands out in biodynamics, PPGEDF/UFP leads in the sociocultural area, and PPGFEF/UNICAMP has the largest production in the pedagogical subfield. The number of articles increased from 2010 to 2017; in 2016, articles in foreign language outnumbered those written in Portuguese. While the number of publications on biodynamics has grown significantly, that on the other areas has not. Some of these characteristics are related to peculiarities of these different subfields and to evaluation criteria adopted by CAPES (Area 21).