FEMICIDE IN SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

REPRESENTATION AND VISIBILITY

Authors

  • Isabella de Brito Alves Federal University of Minas Gerais image/svg+xml
  • Alexandre Rocha Federal University of Minas Gerais image/svg+xml
  • Bryan Felipe de Oliveira Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul image/svg+xml
  • Célia da Consolação Dias Federal University of Minas Gerais image/svg+xml
  • Benildes Coura Moreira dos Santos Maculan Federal University of Minas Gerais image/svg+xml

Keywords:

knowledge representation, organization of information, bibliometrics, descriptive metadata, information retrieval

Abstract

Femicide has become increasingly established over recent decades as an important analytical category for understanding lethal violence against women, expanding its presence across scientific, legal, and political domains. Within Knowledge Organization, the incorporation of concepts into scholarly communication constitutes a relevant process for understanding their visibility and institutionalization. This study aimed to analyze the presence and evolution of the representation of the concept of femicide in international scholarly communication through its occurrence in titles, abstracts, and keywords of scientific literature published between 2005 and 2025. A bibliometric approach informed by Knowledge Organization was adopted, based on a corpus of 1,874 scientific articles published between 2005 and 2025 and retrieved from the Scopus and SciELO databases. The analysis included indicators of the evolution of scientific production, the occurrence of the concept in titles, abstracts, and keywords, as well as keyword co-occurrence networks and thematic structures of the literature. The findings reveal consistent growth in scientific production on femicide, an expanding presence of the concept in metadata, and its incorporation across different scientific communities. The study concludes that the recurrent presence of the concept in metadata and its position within the thematic structure of the literature constitute indications of its increasing stabilization and visibility in scholarly communication.

Author Biographies

  • Isabella de Brito Alves, Federal University of Minas Gerais

    Librarian-documentalist at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Graduated in Library Science from the School of Information Science at UFMG and specialized in Library Science at the International Signorelli College. She has been working in university libraries since 2012, with experience in reference services, information organization and representation, technical processing, and management of information units.

  • Alexandre Rocha, Federal University of Minas Gerais

    Doctorate (2024) and Master's (2015) in Electrical Engineering, with an emphasis on Computer and Telecommunications Systems, from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), and a Bachelor's in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering (2012) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas). He works as a professor in the Computer Science Department (DCC/UFMG). Professionally, he coordinates the Information Technology Department at the School of Economic Sciences (FACE/UFMG).

  • Bryan Felipe de Oliveira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

    Doctor in Information Management from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). Researcher in the field of Data Management, Master in Information Management from UFPR, Licensed in Mathematics from Cruzeiro do Sul University (UCZSUL), Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Cruzeiro do Sul University (UCZSUL), and Technologist in Financial Management from Positivo University (UP). He works as the head of the Budget Control and Execution Unit at the Rector's Office of the Federal University of Paraná.

  • Célia da Consolação Dias, Federal University of Minas Gerais

    Associate Professor in the Department of Organization and Information Processing at the School of Information Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Postdoctoral researcher at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Vice President of ISKO Brazil. Holds a PhD and a Master's in Information Science from the School of Information Science at UFMG. Graduated in Library Science from the same institution. Currently a permanent professor at PPGGOC. Leads the Knowledge Representation and Information Retrieval Research Group (RECRI/UFMG).

  • Benildes Coura Moreira dos Santos Maculan, Federal University of Minas Gerais

    Doctor and Master in Information Science from the Graduate Program in Information Science at the School of Information Science (ECI) of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Graduated in Library Science from ECI/UFMG. Associate Professor in the Department of Organization and Information Processing (ECI/UFMG). Researcher in the Graduate Program in Knowledge Organization Management (PPGGOC/ECI/UFMG). Member of the research groups MHTX - Conceptual Modeling for Hypertextual Document Organization, RECRI - Knowledge Representation and Information Retrieval, and the Digital Humanities group at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the 20th Century (University of Coimbra, Portugal). Member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Council (STAC) of ISKO International.

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Published

2026-11-13

Conference Proceedings Volume

2026: XXVI ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE PESQUISA E PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIA DA INFORMAÇÃO

Section

GT 2 – Organização e Representação do Conhecimento

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