Brazilian Journal of Special Education: 30 Years of History

In this article, the aim was to revisit the history of the Revista Brasileira de Educação Especial [Brazilian Journal of Special Education] (RBEE), with a focus on the constructions expressed in the organization and structuring of the Journal, over its three decades of existence. For this, we went through the publications of the RBEE from 1992 to 2021, in order to collect, organize and analyze systematized data through units of analysis. Methodologically, the work was organized in two moments: initially, the Journal’s contents, titles, editorials, errata, reports, evaluations and awards were objects of study; in a second moment, the titles of the published studies received attention and their expressions were systematized to create word clouds. From these movements, we created three units of analysis, which were organized respecting the historical landmarks evidenced in the RBEE: I) Creation Phase, which covered the period from 1992 to 2004, marked by the beginning of the institutionalization of RBEE; II) Expansion Phase, which involved the period from 2005 to 2012, in which we visualized the maintenance of the periodicity, as well as the indexing of the RBEE in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) system; III) Consolidation Phase, which comprised the period from 2013 to 2021, mainly characterized by the internationalization of the Journal and the reach of Qualis CAPES A1 in Education.