This paper aimed to assess 22 Brazilian Science Teaching journals and to identify the most cited works used as references. We gathered all papers where the words science, technology and society have appeared either in the abstract or in the keywords. Our research considered 88 articles and 394 citations where the 13 most cited papers were obtained. A citation network was built from the selected papers. From the results, we have drawn some conclusions: there is a predominance of citations to Brazilian authors and they are the main source in most of the journals and papers analyzed in this research; it is not possible to perceive inter-disciplinarity and contextualization, two STS distinctive attributes. Our partial results also confirmed the needed to know which source the key STS Brazilian authors are using as a foundation to their own study and its impact on STS production in Brazil.
Science and technology teaching; Periodical; Scientific magazine; Citation; Literature review; STS; Social networks
