Communication and Gender as research area: characteristics and development of studies using a bibliometric analysis

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the overview of characteristics and development of communication research that interface with gender analysis. The research is based on the analysis of articles published in 70 Brazilian scientific journals classified as A1, A2, B1 and B2 in the area of Communication and Information. The analysis presented is based on aspects related about three points: predominant areas, methods and techniques employed, and processes prioritized in empirical observations. The corpus or this article is formed by 633 articles about Communication and Gender found until 2019. The dates are presented from the quantitative method, and the analysis of the articles was made from the systematic observation of the publications, following the bibliometric technique. Among the results, we highlight the qualitative research and the sub-areas of journalism and audiovisual.

Keywords
Communication; Gender; Scientific Production; Bibliometrics; Articles