A questão racial nas pesquisas em educação: um estudo cientométrico nas instituições federais de ensino superior em Minas Gerais

Abstract

This study sought to identify the most influential Brazilian researchers in the fields of race and affirmative aciton policy as determined by citation in education research conducted by graduate programs of higher education institutions in Brazil. The study evaluated publications from scholars at institutions maintained by the Federal Government in Minas Gerais, from 1988 to 2021, which are available in the Catalog of Theses and Dissertations of Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education. This scientometric study measures scientific communication through the analysis of citations, revealing the visibility and impact of authors within a specific scientific community. The research adopted a quantitative approach of an applied nature. Data collection was carried out in the catalogue of CAPES using the search terms "racism," "blacks," "negritude," "black movement," "race relations," "affirmative action," "quota law," "racial quotas" and "quotas." Institutional repositories of the producing universities were also searched to access the full documents. Microsoft Excel® was used for quantitative analysis and Iramuteq software was used for textual analysis. The following textual fragments were extracted from the selected theses and dissertations: title, abstract, and keywords. Theses and dissertations that included these keywords were identified, and the most cited authors, this being professor/researcher Nilma Lino Gomes. A list of the most cited works was compiled and the one with the highest number of citations was "Epistemologias do Sul". The most frequently used keywords in the theses and dissertations on the proposed topic were: education, race relations, affirmative action programs, school discrimination. The sub-themes with the highest frequency in the area of education were structured into four major clusters: black, university, research, education. The institution that registered the most research on the topic was the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and the most cited author was Nilma Lino Gomes, who produced ample research and participated in many thesis defense committees on the topic.