Evaluation of Brazilian research output in education: confronting international and national contexts
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Evaluation of Brazilian research output in education: confronting international and national contexts Eliseo Reategui1 · Alause Pires1 · Michel Carniato2 · Sergio Roberto Kieling Franco1 Received: 30 January 2020 © Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2020
Abstract Scientific production has increased considerably in the last two decades in Brazil, placing the country as an emerging scientific power. In the field of Education, the same can be observed, with a significant growth in the number of articles published by Brazilian researchers in the recent past. In this article we evaluate Brazilian research output in Education from 2007 to 2016, with the intent to understand how national evaluation standards compare with international parameters dictated by bibliometric indicators. We confront the citation impact of Brazilian publications in the period with their classification in an expertbased journal evaluation system called QUALIS. We used Scopus’ SNIP bibliometric indicator for this analysis. The study was carried out using data about 40,825 articles published in 2719 different journals. Results showed that only a small percentage of these articles featured in Scopus indexed journals (13.28%), and most of these journals were published in Brazil (66%). The citation impact of the Scopus indexed publications had a significant growth in the period, but journals with dissimilar citation impact were not distinctively distributed in separate QUALIS categories. These findings show a certain publishing pattern that is likely to be related to the association of the Brazilian research evaluation and funding systems. In addition, they raise questions about how the establishment of evaluation criteria that is mainly subjective and does not include specific metrics may hinder the visibility of research output from a global perspective. Keywords Research assessment · Education · QUALIS · CAPES · Brazil Mathematics Subject Classification 62-07 JEL Classification C12
* Eliseo Reategui [email protected] 1
PGIE, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Scientometrics
Introduction More than ever a country’s scientific capacity has become a critical factor for its economic and social development (Chuang et al. 2010). Scientific production has increased intensely in Brazil in the recent past, placing the country as an emerging scientific power, alongside China, India and Russia (King 2009). Helene and Ribeiro (2011) advocate that there has been an almost 18-fold increase in the number of Brazilian papers published in the last 30 years, accompanying the significant rise in the number of doctoral graduates in the country. De Almeida and Guimarães (2013) corroborate the same claims, showing that Brazil has been among a small set of nations that achieved rates of growth in scientific production that were well above the world average in the same period. A recent report places Brazil in the 13th position in research publications worldwide, with an
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