The citation analysis of 28 theses and dissertations on school library produced in Brazil aimed at identifying: influences of authors and areas, citation characteristics and differences between theses and dissertations. It was not possible to identify relations between authors, due to great dispersion in terms of the institutions of origin and of cited documents. It was possible to identify significant influence of Education. The comparison between theses and dissertations did not show significant differences, expected in documents that result from different levels of academic education. Some characteristics in citing could be identified: predominance of the book, of citations of individual authorship, of documents in Portuguese and published in Brazil and of Brazilian periodicals in the citations.
citation analysis; school library; thesis and dissertations