A Scientometric Study of Doctoral Theses on the Roma in the Iberian Peninsula During the 1977-2018 Period Salgado-Orellana, Norma Berrocal De Luna, Emilio Gutiérrez Braojos, Calixto Gitanos Roma Tesis Doctorales Scientometrics Cienciometría Research Evaluation Investigación Evaluativa Doctoral Thesis This study was funded by the CONICYT Scholarship PFCHA 72190263. It also has the support of the Research, “Innovation and Improvement in Andalusia” (HUM 126). This study corresponds to a scientometric analysis of doctoral theses defended in Spain and Portugal during the 1977-2018 period related to the Roma. The search of doctoral theses has been carried out within the main databases and repositories of Higher Education institutions, of which 237 doctoral theses have been registered for the study period. Different scientific indicators have been considered, related to diachronic productivity, directors, institutions, citation and content; and the Bibliometrix R package has been used as an analysis tool in both scientometrics and bibliometrics. The findings highlight a growth in productivity of doctoral theses, a production characterized by directors and occasional universities and a social network constituted by the most productive directors in doctoral theses on the Roma. Este estudio corresponde a un análisis cienciométrico de tesis doctorales defendidas en España y Portugal durante el periodo 1977-2018 relacionadas con la población gitana. La búsqueda de tesis doctorales se ha llevado a cabo en las principales bases de datos y repositorios de instituciones de educación superior, de las cuales se han registrado 237 tesis doctorales para el periodo de estudio. Se han considerado diferentes indicadores científicos relacionados con la productividad diacrónica, directores, instituciones, citación y contenido; y se ha utilizado el paquete Bibliometrix R como herramienta de análisis tanto en cienciometría como en bibliometría. Los hallazgos destacan un crecimiento en la productividad de las tesis doctorales, una producción caracterizada por directores y universidades ocasionales, y una red social constituida por los directores más productivos en tesis doctorales sobre la población gitana. 2026-01-27T10:22:36Z 2026-01-27T10:22:36Z 2021-01-10 journal article Published version: Salgado-Orellana, N., Berrocal de-Luna, E. & Gutiérrez-Braojos, C. A scientometric study of doctoral theses on the Roma in the Iberian Peninsula during the 1977–2018 period. Scientometrics 126, 437–458 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03723-y https://hdl.handle.net/10481/110315 10.1007/s11192-020-03723-y eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Springer Nature