Database of publications in Scopus for a bibliometric study on sexual harassment.
Description
The object of this research is the scientific production on "sexual harassment" in the field of social sciences. The type of analysis to be carried out is exploratory, descriptive and quantitative based on the techniques and tools of bibliometric analysis of the documents stored in the Scopus bibliographic database. Systematic literature reviews in research work are very useful for researchers because they help them to delve deeper into the field of study, to know the most cited trends, networks, works and authors, and to raise questions for future research (Muyor and Fernández-Prados, 2021). To these advantages can be added some risks such as "inflated" citations due to self-citation abuses, distinguishing citations to criticise a certain work, defining precise semantic search fields, etc. (Holden, & Barker, 2005). In any case, bibliometric studies contemplate a formal and rigorous procedure that guarantees the quality of the results obtained by using increasingly sophisticated analysis techniques and software and increasingly systematic and complete compilations of scientific publications (Ball, 2020). The steps followed to delimit the scope of the study were based on the decision of the database to be consulted, the search term and fields, as well as the time interval in which the sample of documents to be analysed would finally be located. Firstly, Scopus was chosen because it is the largest database of abstracts and citations of peer-reviewed literature containing around 25,100 indexed titles including journals, books, proceedings, etc. and some 77.8 million records or documents (Elsevier, 2020). Secondly, the search term selected aims to collect those publications that address the topic or term "sexual harassment" and that appeared in the title, abstract or keyword fields, finding some 7,900 documents. In addition, it was limited to articles published up to and including the year 2020, excluding those published in 2021 and those announced for 2022 as these years are still incomplete, leaving 7,181 documents. Finally, those records confined to the thematic area of the social sciences (Social Sciences) were selected, reducing the final sample to 2,980 documents.
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The steps followed to delimit the scope of the study were based on the decision of the database to be consulted, the search term and fields, as well as the time interval in which the sample of documents to be analysed would finally be located. Firstly, Scopus was chosen because it is the largest database of abstracts and citations of peer-reviewed literature containing around 25,100 indexed titles including journals, books, proceedings, etc. and some 77.8 million records or documents (Elsevier, 2020). Secondly, the search term selected aims to collect those publications that address the topic or term "sexual harassment" and that appeared in the title, abstract or keyword fields, finding some 7,900 documents. In addition, it was limited to articles published up to and including the year 2020, excluding those published in 2021 and those announced for 2022 as these years are still incomplete, leaving 7,181 documents. Finally, those records confined to the thematic area of the social sciences (Social Sciences) were selected, reducing the final sample to 2,980 documents.