Scientific Production Assessment in a Computer Science Department: A Case Study

Abstract

Bibliometric evaluation is a crucial research topic that finds various applications ranging from faculty productivity evaluation and assessing researcher career trajectory to analyzing trends and emerging themes in a research area. This study examined the CVs of 36 researchers and professors from a Brazilian university’s computer science faculty. The publication data obtained from Plataforma Lattes, an online repository of Brazilian researchers' CVs, was used. The objective of this study was to evaluate the productivity of each professor in quantity and quality, over a period of five years, along with analyzing the co-authorship network. In addition, the study examined the correlation between researcher's productivity and the Research Productivity Grants (Bolsas de Produtividade em Pesquisa - PQ grant) since the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) considers the professor's curriculum as one of the criteria for granting the grant.