BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SPANISH DOCTORAL THESIS IN MARTIAL ARTS AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS OF THEIR AUTHORS

Abstract

the objective is to verify if obtaining the title of Doctor is a factor that promotes the formation of new investigators. Present of the h-index of the authors-authors as well as the relationship that exists with measures used to evaluate research productivity, such as number of articles and index of citations. The TESEO and Web of Science database obtained the work records. The results showed a total of 86 theses (2.2 theses / year) more than 285 works in Web of Science, with an average of 5.81 works / author. The average number of appointments per work is 4.25, while the number of appointments per author stands at 24.73. The overall mean h-index is 2.02 per author. We conclude a low production of doctoral theses in Spain in Martial Arts. More than half of the doctor-authors publish works in Web of Science with a remarkable scientific diffusion of their theses.

Keywords
Academic dissertations; Martial Arts; periodicals as topic; Bibliometrics