IDO MOVEMENT FOR CULTURE

Background. Over the last few decades, capoeira has been highlighted as one of the most fascinating human activities. Parallel to the growing number of practitioners worldwide, capoeira has increasingly been the focus of academic concerns, particularly in university contexts.
Problem and aim. This study aimed to identify how capoeira has been addressed academically. For this purpose, it sought to develop a bibliometric analysis of published articles on capoeira over the last decade.
Material and methods. 353 articles written in the Portuguese, English, Spanish and French languages were identified in the Pubmed (n = 27), Web of Science (n = 176), and Scopus (n = 150) databases, from 2010 to 2020, using the word “capoeira”. After that, 227 articles were removed because they were repeated, with unavailable access or dealt with another matter, resulting in 126 records for analysis. They were analysed based on the relative frequency of occurrences considering: (i) area of knowledge, (ii) authorship, (iii) type of research, and (iv) journal.

Results. The articles on capoeira belonged in the disciplines of Social Sciences, Life Sciences and Biomedicine, and Arts and Humanities. The most frequent subareas were Sport Science, Education Educational Research, Hospitality Leisure Sport Tourism, and Social Sciences Interdisciplinary. The main journals were : Movimento, Archives of Budo, Ido Movement for Culture, Revista de

Artes Marciales Asiaticas, and Periferia. Qualitative research was the method most utilised. Furthermore, most articles were published in co-authorship, which involved authors from different institutions from the same and different countries.

Conclusions. These findings contribute to clarifying the state of research into the set of capoeira and as an important step for the researcher to raise questions, select research methods and define publication targets.