Análisis Cienciométrico de Tesis Doctorales Españolas en Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales (1976-2012)

Abstract

This paper presents a scientometric analysis of Spanish doctoral theses in the area of Social Science teaching and indexed in the TESEO database during the period 1976-2012. We retrieved 151 doctoral theses. The main objective of this research is to describe the state of the field from the production of doctoral theses, developing time series and the stages of diachronic retrospective production, institutional production, production related to the language in which the theses were written, the most active supervisors of the area, and a content analysis of titles. The results highlight the need for consolidation of the area as well as an epistemological consensus within it, and the major role of universities in Barcelona as the greatest institutional producers.