This is an analysis of profiles of 16 professors and 1.171 quotations from theses produced at the PPGCMH (Graduate Program on Human Movement Science) at the EsEFUFRGS (Physical Education College/Federal University of RS) in 2003 and 2004. The objectives were: to determine the features of the sources of information used by these professors; to contribute for the epistemological studies in the field from the Information Science perspective; to describe textual elements and explore their potentialities in an attempt to improve the knowledge about the scientific field of physical education. Empirical analyses on the quotations and the profile data created lines of study in the field. The results revealed clear characteristics of interdisciplinarity in the specific area of knowledge, which, along with other empirical variables found, can turn into elements that may encourage future analyses and interpretations taken by researchers belonging to the community studied.
Citation analysis; Physical education; Clue-following method; Escola de Educação Física da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS
