‘Studies on women’ in Portugal after the Beijing Declaration: bibliometric study of ex æquo and Faces de Eva journals

Abstract

‘Studies on women’ in Portugal after the Beijing Declaration – bibliometric study of ex æquo and Faces de Eva journals

In this article we present and discuss a set of results of a bibliometric study of the journals ex æquo and Faces de Eva. The metadata of 259 texts of Faces de Eva and 399 of ex æquo’s, published between 1999 and 2019, were incorporated into a framework basis which included authors, their institutional and geographical affiliations and as well as all the titles, abstracts and keywords. The results show that Women´s, Gender and Feminist Studies (WGFS) consolidated as a field of interdisciplinary studies, with a growing trend towards collaborative research. Over the two analysed decades different themes and concepts, and a diversity of profiles and regimes of authorship emerged. The publication of this set of results of the undertaken bibliometric study aims to facilitate a better definition of the possible future and development of the WGFS field, in a context of national and international dialogue.