Eixos temáticos e colaborações internacionais da produção científica sobre violência doméstica nos ultimos 20 anos.

Abstract

Domestic violence is present in many homes and has emerged as a serious social problem. In this context, the aim of this study is to investigate how Brazilian scientific production on domestic violence has been characterized over the last 20 years. To this end, a bibliometric analysis of thematic axes, constructed from topic modeling (LDA), of publications on domestic violence found in the Scopus database was conducted for two periods, 2005 to 2014 and 2015 to 2024, to investigate temporal evolution. The results were generated using the R software. Three topics were identified in each period, which were labeled as a thematic axis. Thus, the research includes the temporal evolution of the articles, the most frequent terms in each period, the terms with the highest probabilities in each subtopic, the main co-occurrences between the terms, and the most productive universities. Therefore, each topic generated co-authorship networks between universities, countries, and authors, as well as graphs showing the gender distribution of the authors. The results suggest that scientific production on the topic is greater in the more recent period and that the words woman, child, and health have high frequency in the corpus. Furthermore, the LDA identifies topics with representative terms related to violence against women and gender-based violence, intimate partner violence, domestic abuse of children and adolescents, and prevention and intervention programs. It was concluded that USP (University of São Paulo) accounts for the majority of the works. International collaboration reveals, mainly, Brazilian partnerships, which are more comprehensive in recent years and concentrated in the United States and the United Kingdom; however, in the second period, two of the subtopics indicated the existence of strong collaboration with Portugal. It was found that most of the authors' names are female. Therefore, the research gathers information on what is being produced in the literature on domestic violence in each subtopic analyzed and contributes to a better understanding of this scientific field.