40 years of Estudios Pedagógicos: bibliometric analysis

Abstract

The aim of this paper was to carry out a bibliometric analysis of the articles published in Estudios Pedagógicos journal from 1976 to 2015. Thus, all published issues were checked, collecting the basic bibliographic information as well as the affiliation, type of document, decade and subject of each document within Endnote X6 programme and then exported to Excel 2013 for determining productivity, subjects and collaboration patterns. In total, 700 documents were published, predominating researches (69,43%), dedicated to Education Sciences and educational environment (20,71%), participating 1087 authors from 188 different institutions and 21 countries, and depicting a rise in the collaboration along time. In conclusion, Estudios Pedagógicos has contributed to the dissemination of a considerable amount of scientific works related to educational research, mainly those developed by the own Universidad Austral de Chile and in their own country.