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.

本研究的研究对象为社会科学领域内围绕"性骚扰"展开的科研成果。本研究采用的分析类型为探索性、描述性与定量分析，基于Scopus文献数据库（Scopus）中存储文献的文献计量分析技术与工具。研究工作中的系统性文献综述对科研人员极具实用价值，可帮助其深入钻研研究领域，洞悉高被引趋势、学术网络、核心成果与关键作者，并为未来研究提出研究方向（Muyor与Fernández-Prados，2021）。此类综述亦存在若干局限，例如因自引滥用导致的"虚高"引用、区分用于批判某一成果的引用、精准界定语义搜索范围等（Holden与Barker，2005）。无论如何，文献计量研究均遵循严谨规范的流程，通过愈发成熟的分析技术与软件，以及愈发系统完整的科研文献汇编，保障所得结果的质量（Ball，2020）。本研究划定研究范围的步骤，基于选定的检索数据库、检索词与检索字段，以及最终纳入分析的文献样本所属时间区间。首先，选用Scopus文献数据库（Scopus），因其是目前规模最大的经过同行评议的文献摘要与引文数据库，涵盖约25100种标引文献（包括期刊、图书、会议论文集等），总计约7780万条记录或文献（Elsevier，2020）。其次，选定的检索词旨在收录标题、摘要或关键词字段中涉及"性骚扰"主题或术语的文献，初步检索得到约7900篇文献。此外，将检索范围限定为2020年及之前发表的论文，排除2021年及2022年已公布但尚未完成收录的文献，最终得到7181篇文献。最后，筛选出隶属于社会科学（Social Sciences）主题领域的记录，将最终样本缩减至2980篇文献。