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The study has tried to look at the political transition through the articles published by Spanish scientists in Spanish journals of Social Sciences and Humanities. A sample of 11000 article references from a selected set of 32 journals published from 1976 till 1985, has been the basis of the analysis. This time frame has been divided into two 5 year periods in order to detect any change in the topics published. The result of the analysis has been compared with the “events” as recorded by “El Pais” a very popular newspaper, during the same 10 year period and with a set of specific articles devoted to the Spanish political transition.
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Román, A., Méndez, A. The Spanish transition to democracy seen through the Spanish database isoc. Scientometrics 30, 201–211 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02017223
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02017223