Resumen

CRUZ RAMIREZ, Miguel; MARTINEZ CEPENA, Mayelín Caridad; DIAZ FERRER, Yohan  y  ROJAS VELAZQUEZ, Osvaldo Jesús. The expert method in Cuban doctoral dissertation in the educational field: a bibliometric and content study. Rev. cuba. inf. cienc. salud [online]. 2022, vol.33, e1961.  Epub 30-Jun-2022. ISSN 2307-2113.

The objective of this research is to characterize the evolution and use of the expert method in Cuban pedagogical and educational research. To fulfil this purpose, a bibliometric and content study was developed. A sample was made up of 1000 doctoral dissertations from 1995-2019, which represents 31.96% of the national production in these branches of science. Twenty-nine most frequently used methods were identified, as well as a network of terms that define five conglomerates of application fields. Methods are generally classified as empirical or theoretical, with a relatively low degree of standardization. In particular, the expert method has been applied increasingly and systematically during the last two decades, with marked emphasis on the particular case of Delphi method. The most common terminologies are expert and specialist, with no notable conceptual differences between them. The search for validity has gradually been replaced by other qualitative notions, such as feasibility and pertinence-feasibility binomial. The search for consensus has lost ground compared to other more flexible objectives, such as the evaluation of the quality of a scientific result, mainly methodologies, conceptions and models. A mathematical model based on binary logistic regression was also established, which is useful to estimate the probability that the Expert Method is implemented during a doctoral research. Seven variables are involved in this model, among which the survey and statistical methods are more influential and interrelated.

Palabras clave : expert testimony; bibliometric indicators; research; research techniques; investigation report.