Discovering Fat Studies Literature: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

This study engages with information literacy with respect to the marginalizing experience
of fat oppression. The aim is to illuminate assumptions underlying research
and scholarship into the lives of people living in larger bodies and to investigate how
researchers can discover studies founded on either a medicalization or fat studies
paradigm. A bibliometric analysis reveals where fat studies literature is published
and indexed, as well as how keywords differ among authors and indexes. The study
is important not only for courses in fat studies, but also as a valuable exemplar for
critical thinking in information literacy instruction across disciplines