SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS IN BRAZILIAN PHYSICAL EDUCATION: PUBLICATIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND INDEXERS

The aim was to draw up an overview of Brazilian physical education scientific journals within the current dynamics in the academic-scientific field. We searched CAPES' [Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior, Coordination for Improvement of Higher Education Staff] Qualis Journals for available data on Brazilian physical education journals, whose websites were accessed and analyzed. The data underwent content analysis, performed with the support of the MaxQDA (R) software. Thirty-nine journals were identified, with a focus and scope covering various themes and objects in physical education, mostly launched in the 1990s and 2000s. Journals have as their main affiliation higher education institutions and scientific associations and they are indexed with a higher proportion in Google Scholar and Latindex, with a minority appearing in the collections of the most disputed indexers such as Web of Science and Scopus. It is perceived that the group of scientific journals of physical education is consolidated and they make up the internal dynamics of this academic-scientific field.