Publication in a Brazilian journal by Brazilian scientists whose papers have international impact

Meneghini, Rogério

doi:10.1590/s0100-879x2010007500073

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“…Several authors have shown that international collaboration increases visibility of the scientific work (Katz and Martin 1997) and the resultant publications receive higher consideration (Van Raan 1988) or, in other words, publications resulting from international collaboration produce “more positive effects on the quality of the output when compared to research without collaboration” (Abramo et al 2009). Other authors made similar observations (Meneghini 2010; Tahamtan et al 2016; Meneghini et al 2008; Akre et al 2011; Leite et al 2011). Concerning to this, Smith et al (2014) studying journal placement and citation performance of articles, observed that “the relative success of articles can be holistically assessed, yielding new insights into the scientific impact of individual countries and cross-national collaboration”.…”

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Unbalanced international collaboration affects adversely the usefulness of countries’ scientific output as well as their technological and social impact

2016

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The unbalanced international scientific collaboration as cause of misleading information on the country’s contribution to the scientific world output was analyzed. ESI Data Base (Thomson Reuters’ InCites), covering the scientific production of 217 active countries in the period 2010–2014 was used. International collaboration implicates in a high percentage (33.1 %) of double-counted world articles, thus impacting qualitative data as citations, impact and impact relative to word. The countries were divided into three groups, according to their individual contribution to the world publications: Group I (24 countries, at least 1 %) representing 83.9 % of the total double-counted world articles. Group II (40 countries, 0.1–0.99 % each). Group III, 153 countries (70.5 %) with <0.1 % and altogether 1.9 % of the world. Qualitative characteristics of each group were also analyzed: percentage of the country’s GNP applied in R&D, proportion of Scientists and Engineers per million inhabitants and Human Development Index. Average international collaboration were: Group I, 43.0 %; Group II, 55.8 % and Group III, 85.2 %. We concluded that very high and unbalanced international collaboration, as presented by many countries, misrepresent the importance of their scientific production, technological and social outputs. Furthermore, it jeopardizes qualitative outputs of the countries themselves, artificially increasing their scientific impact, affecting all fields and therefore, the whole world. The data confirm that when dealing with the qualitative contribution of countries, it is necessary to take in consideration the level of international cooperation because, as seen here, it can and in fact it does create false impression of the real contribution of countries.

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Unbalanced international collaboration affects adversely the usefulness of countries’ scientific output as well as their technological and social impact

2016

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“…In fact, it is possible that the interest in studying the Cerrado comes from the local scientific community and that the results of such studies have more impact on the Brazilians themselves. However, the fear or even the very experience of a refusal from foreign journals can also lead researchers to submit their articles to national journals (Meneghini, 2010). Even taking into account the increase in the number of articles indexed in international databases (as Thompson-ISI;Leta and Chaimovich, 2002), Brazilian journals are still poorly aimed at internationally (Meneghini, 2010), a fact that is demonstrated by the low number of citations.…”

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“…However, the fear or even the very experience of a refusal from foreign journals can also lead researchers to submit their articles to national journals (Meneghini, 2010). Even taking into account the increase in the number of articles indexed in international databases (as Thompson-ISI;Leta and Chaimovich, 2002), Brazilian journals are still poorly aimed at internationally (Meneghini, 2010), a fact that is demonstrated by the low number of citations. This is probably due to the large number of articles still published in Portuguese.…”

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Tendências e lacunas da literatura científica sobre o bioma Cerrado: uma análise cienciométrica

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Machado

et al. 2014

Neotropical Biology and Conservation

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The Cerrado (Brazilian savanna) is the second largest Brazilian biome and is considered a biodiversity hotspot, for presenting high endemism and being under intense threat. This study aimed at highlighting publication trends on the Cerrado, detecting possible gaps and indicating future directions for scientific studies on this biome. We searched for articles between 1991 and 2012 in the journal database of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). We observed a significant increase in the number of articles throughout the years of the evaluated period (r=0.89; P<0.001), demonstrating an increasing interest of the scientific community in the Cerrado. Largely addressed issues were related to biodiversity (64.75%), followed by abiotic environment (13.38%) and agricultural crops (11.21%). In addition, 10.65% addressed both biodiversity and abiotic environment jointly. The most studied taxonomic group was plants (42%), followed by fungi (18%) and insects (12%). Fishes presented a lower number of studies (0.6%). The main gaps concern the few studies dealing with abiotic aspects and freshwater organisms, such as fishes, and also a low increment in the number of articles on invertebrates, except insects. Based on these gaps, we suggest that future studies must be especially directed towards aquatic environments and their biodiversity.

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“…In essence, the limited visibility is because submissions to national journals are restricted to works written by Brazilian researchers themselves. The situation is aggravated because the contributions by Brazilians are generally submitted to national journals if they have not been accepted in other international journals or their authors predict that they will not be [ 27 ]. The results we obtained confirm the low visibility of the national journals and the significantly lower impact of the papers that Brazilian researchers publish in them.…”

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Brazilian Science between National and Foreign Journals: Methodology for Analyzing the Production and Impact in Emerging Scientific Communities

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In recent decades, we have observed an intensification of science, technology and innovation activities in Brazil. The increase in production of scientific papers indexed in international databases, however, has not been accompanied by an equivalent increase in the impact of publications. This paper presents a methodology for analyzing production and the impact of certain research areas in Brazil related to two aspects: the origin of the journals (national or foreign) and international collaboration. These two variables were selected for being of particular importance in understanding the context of scientific production and communication in countries with emerging economies. The sample consisted of papers written by Brazilian researchers in 19 subfields of knowledge published from 2002 to 2011, totaling 85,082 papers. To calculate the impact, we adopted a normalized indicator called the relative subfield citedness (Rw) using a window of 5 years to obtain measurements evaluated in 2 different years: 2007 and 2012. The data on papers and citations were collected from the Web of Science database. From the results, we note that most of the subfields have presented, from one quinquennium to another, improved performance in the world production rankings. Regarding publication in national and foreign journals, we observed a trend in the distribution maintenance of production of the subfields based on the origin of the journal. Specifically, for impact, we identified a lower Rw pattern for Brazilian papers when they were published in national journals in all subfields. When Brazilian products are published in foreign journals, we observed a higher impact for those papers, even surpassing the average global impact in some subfields. For international collaboration, we analyzed the percentage of participation of foreign researchers and the connection between collaboration and the impact of papers, especially emphasizing the distinction of hyperauthorship papers in terms of production and impact.

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Publication in a Brazilian journal by Brazilian scientists whose papers have international impact

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Unbalanced international collaboration affects adversely the usefulness of countries’ scientific output as well as their technological and social impact

Unbalanced international collaboration affects adversely the usefulness of countries’ scientific output as well as their technological and social impact

Tendências e lacunas da literatura científica sobre o bioma Cerrado: uma análise cienciométrica

Brazilian Science between National and Foreign Journals: Methodology for Analyzing the Production and Impact in Emerging Scientific Communities

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