Limits, challenges and perspectives: História da Historiografia journal during the first decade (2008-2018)

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the profile of the executiveeditors and the authors, and the technical characteristicsof the publications of the História da Historiografiajournal, from 2008 to 2018, through bibliometric analysis. Using data available in the complete editionsof the journal, it was observed that the main profile ofthe authors of articles was men (68%), higher education teachers (55%), adjunct professors (41%), from Brazilian institutions 70%), located in the southeast region (67%), who published only once in the jornal (87%). The papers were mostly contributed in single author style (92%), carried out without funding (67%), written in Portuguese (80%), belonging to the history of historiography and to the theory of history (67%), of authors or aspects of Brazil (25%), focused on the contemporary age (77%). Most of the authors studied inthe articles published in the História da Historiografia are male (95%). Regarding the composition of its ExecutiveBoard, the majority of the researchers are men (86%), whites (72%), Brazilians (86%), from institutions of higher education in the Southeast region (75%).