Pedagogy of the Oppressed Citation and Reader Data, 1968-2017

Fifty years of bibliometric and geohistorical data analyze the citation and readership of Paulo Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'. The dataset was created by Otacílio Antunes Santana to test hypotheses about the book's attempted banning and its readership profile. It likely contains records of citations and reader demographics spanning from 1968 to 2017.

Use Cases

• Analyzing citation patterns over time based on the 50-year time range mentioned in the description
• Mapping the geographic distribution of readers and references based on the geohistorical analysis focus
• Investigating the relationship between a text's reception and geopolitical contexts like colonization mentioned in the hypotheses
• Studying the impact of attempted censorship on academic discourse based on Hypothesis 1 about banning the book

Strengths

• Covers a 50-year time span from 1968 to 2017
• Focuses on a single, highly influential text allowing for deep analysis
• Addresses specific, testable hypotheses about censorship and readership

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data may reflect geographic or source bias inherent to the bibliometric sources used

Provenance

Source

Otacílio Antunes Santana

Collection Method

Bibliometric and geohistorical analysis

Time Range

1968-2017