Database of publications in Scopus for a bibliometric study on sexual harassment.

The object of this research is the scientific production on "sexual harassment" in the field of social sciences. The type of analysis to be carried out is exploratory, descriptive and quantitative based on the techniques and tools of bibliometric analysis of the documents stored in the Scopus bibliographic database. Systematic literature reviews in research work are very useful for researchers because they help them to delve deeper into the field of study, to know the most cited trends, networks, works and authors, and to raise questions for future research (Muyor and Fernández-Prados, 2021). To these advantages can be added some risks such as "inflated" citations due to self-citation abuses, distinguishing citations to criticise a certain work, defining precise semantic search fields, etc. (Holden, & Barker, 2005). In any case, bibliometric studies contemplate a formal and rigorous procedure that guarantees the quality of the results obtained by using increasingly sophisticated analysis techniques and software and increasingly systematic and complete compilations of scientific publications (Ball, 2020).
The steps followed to delimit the scope of the study were based on the decision of the database to be consulted, the search term and fields, as well as the time interval in which the sample of documents to be analysed would finally be located. Firstly, Scopus was chosen because it is the largest database of abstracts and citations of peer-reviewed literature containing around 25,100 indexed titles including journals, books, proceedings, etc. and some 77.8 million records or documents (Elsevier, 2020). Secondly, the search term selected aims to collect those publications that address the topic or term "sexual harassment" and that appeared in the title, abstract or keyword fields, finding some 7,900 documents. In addition, it was limited to articles published up to and including the year 2020, excluding those published in 2021 and those announced for 2022 as these years are still incomplete, leaving 7,181 documents. Finally, those records confined to the thematic area of the social sciences (Social Sciences) were selected, reducing the final sample to 2,980 documents.

本研究旨在探讨社会科学领域关于“性骚扰”的科学研究。所采用的分析方法为基于Scopus文献数据库中存储文献的计量文献分析方法，包括探索性、描述性和定量分析。系统性的文献综述对于研究者而言极为有益，因为它有助于他们深入研究研究领域，了解被广泛引用的趋势、网络、作品及作者，并为进一步研究提出问题（Muyor and Fernández-Prados, 2021）。此外，还需注意一些潜在风险，如因自我引用滥用而导致的“夸大”引用，区分用于批评某项工作的引用，精确界定语义搜索字段等（Holden, & Barker, 2005）。无论如何，计量学研究均采用正式而严谨的程序，确保通过不断进步的分析技术和软件以及日益系统化和完整的科学出版物汇编所获得的结果质量（Ball, 2020）。确定研究范围所遵循的步骤基于选择咨询的数据库、搜索词及字段，以及最终分析文献样本的时间区间。首先，选择Scopus数据库，因为它拥有最大的同行评审文献摘要和引用数据库，包括约25,100种索引标题，如期刊、书籍、会议记录等，以及约7,780万条记录或文献（Elsevier, 2020）。其次，所选搜索词旨在收集涉及“性骚扰”主题或术语的出版物，并出现在标题、摘要或关键词字段中，找到约7,900份文献。此外，研究范围被限制在2020年及之前发表的文献，排除了2021年及之后宣布的文献，因为这些年份的数据尚不完整，最终样本减少至2,980份。