NATIONAL OVERVIEW OF URBAN CLIMATE RESEARCH IN THE DECADE OF 2012-2022
Literature Review, Urban Climate System; R statistical software
The context of global climate change, among all the issues involved, raises questions related to the direction of scientific research being carried out. In this sense, the present work aims to analyze the panorama of scientific production on urban climate in Brazil, in the decade from 2012 to 2022, contributing to the better targeting of themes with little research in development. Using the bibliometrics methodology, combined with data processing techniques using the statistical software R, a statistical analysis was carried out of scientific articles published in Geography magazines and academic works (dissertations and theses), braiding the scenario of studies on urban climate in Brazil in the decade 2012-2022. 199 scientific articles published in 20 Geography journals were analyzed, with Qualis between A1 and B1 and 139 academic works, including 104 dissertations and 35 theses on the urban climate defended in the aforementioned period. The results indicate that the majority of productions on urban climate are located in the Southeast region, both for scientific articles and academic works (dissertations and theses). At the same time, it was found that the Southeast region is responsible for housing the majority of universities that carried out research on this topic, followed by the Northeast region. The most researched cities were Juiz de Fora/MG, Cuiabá/MT, João Pessoa/PB and Viçosa/MG in scientific articles and Fortaleza/CE, Presidente Prudente/SP and Cuiabá/MT in dissertations and theses. In the last 4 years, there has been a downward trend in the completion of master's and doctorate degrees on urban climate. Regarding the topics researched, the thermodynamic subsystem leads among all types of research.