Análise da produção científica sobre goalball em periódicos nacionais na área da Educação Física

Abstract

Investigating the scientific production of a particular topic is important to improve the researches of a knowledge in order to also enable the evaluation of its construction. The present study aimed to analyze the scientific production on the goalball in national periodicals in the field of Physical Education. To this end, 38 scientific journals in March 2021, and the searches for articles took place in the online database of journals using the term “Goalball”. The discretion of inclusion of periodicals were to publish in portuguese and have an editorial board and headquarters fixed in Brazil, in addition to being available online. Were considered for analysis only original articles and no time limit was set in order to include the entire publication period to verify the evolution of production. After selecting the articles, data were extracted for the year, journal of publication and categorized according to the investigated theme. Data were analyzed based on statistics descriptive of absolute (N) and relative (%) values. In total, 15 articles were published on goalball in 11 different journals. The first published article found dates back to 2007, with the largest number of publications (n = 4) found in 2012. The analysis also revealed that the most frequent theme in articles on goalball were about training, health and pedagogy, followed by the theme sociology. We concluded that the literature is scarce in the investigation of goalball in journals in the field of Physical Education.