Domestic violence: bibliometrics study

The present study had as objective to carry through a bibliometric survey on domestic violence from articles from an international database indexs. Electronic search in three different databases was carried through (Web of Science, Psyc Info and Lilacs). It associated expression "domestic violence" with the words: "man", "woman", "child", adolescent" and "elderly". The articles published between the years of 2006 and 2009 had been selected, which had been analyzed through the reading of the heading and abstracts. From the 636 collected articles most was published in the 2006 year. They were more published by the magazines: "Journal of Family Violence", "Violence Against Women" and "Journal of Interpersonal Violence". Women victims had constituted the main focus of articles, followed of children.