Highly Cited in the South: International Collaboration and Research Recognition Among Brazil’s Highly Cited Researchers

Martínez, Magdalena; Sá, Creso M.

doi:10.1177/1028315319888890

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“…While this is still incipient in the Humanities and Social Sciences, it should be remembered that publications in collaboration are not common in these areas but are increasing (Haddow et al 2017). The present study goes beyond that seen by Martinez and Sá (2020) who stated that engagement with the academic Anglosphere is necessary for highly cited status, derived from co-authored publications with collaborators from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Here, despite the importance of these countries, non-Anglophone countries were also important for Brazilian collaborations.…”

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International collaboration in Brazilian science: financing and impact

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The study of international collaborations can help in understanding the benefits of such relationships and aid in developing national financing policies. In this paper, the international collaboration of Brazilian scientists was studied using SciVal ® and Incites ® database, looking at its effect on the universities, financing agencies and different areas of knowledge and research topic clusters. Cluster and principal component analyses of scientometric data were carried out. While the results confirmed known knowledge that international collaboration increases impact, this study shows that Brazilian researchers are contributing to prominent research topics worldwide, in all areas of knowledge. This finding is contrary to several points of view that identify Brazil as a regional and not an international partner in science. Important also to note the impact of Brazilian authors in international collaboration that is well above the world mean. The collaboration of Brazil with foreign partners brings benefits for both sides, creating the opportunity of Brazilian research access to financing from international agencies. Increases in measures of impact are also seen for both sides. Foreign partners likewise benefit from higher impact factors in the same topic cluster, when collaborating with Brazilian partners. Publishing open access in high impact journals is fundamental for maintaining Brazilian science at the forefront.

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“…According to Martinez and Sá ( 2020 ), Brazil exerts regional leadership in scientific production in Latin America but remains relatively peripheral to global science. This is not seen here, where Brazilian researchers are seen to be effectively collaborating to world prominent themes of high impact and to advance the innovative science.…”

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“…There has been some criticism of bibliometric methods, arguing that such analyses further disadvantage peripheral countries and reinforce asymmetries in the process of global knowledge creation (Hountondji, 2006;Martinez & Sá, 2020;Velho, 1986). While we recognise the unequal footing of many researchers and research institutions from this region, this study has offered some empirical evidence on the existence of large variations within this region.…”

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“…Bibliometric indicators are widely used in the evaluation of research output by governments, university administrators, and researchers. At the same time, the institutionalisation of international databases has supported the development of new knowledge on global science (Gingras, 2016;Kwiek, 2020;Martinez & Sá, 2020;Muller, 2018). The present study contributes to this body of knowledge and uses the Web of Science (WoS) as the source of the bibliometric data.…”

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A big picture: bibliometric study of academic publications from post-Soviet countries

2021

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The world’s largest community of scientists disintegrated following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. With extremely scarce resources and limited academic freedom as starting points, researchers in this region have been creating new knowledge; they have been building on rich scientific traditions in selected disciplines and, at times, paving new paths in non-traditional disciplines. At present, the cumulative contribution of post-Soviet countries to global research output is only three percent, indicating that these countries are not key players on the global research scene. This study uses bibliometric methods to offer novel empirical insight into the quantity and impact of academic publications; it also looks at the quality of journals in which the output is published. The findings reveal that fifteen post-Soviet countries differ considerably in terms of how much they have prioritised research, as well as the quantity, quality, and impact of their publications. The research productivity across the region has not been high and, taken together, these countries have produced publications of considerably lower quality and lower impact when viewed in the context of global research output. At the same time, researchers from post-Soviet countries tap into international collaborative networks actively, resulting in an exceptionally large proportion of publications from this region being internationally co-authored. In the historical context of Soviet research being known as one of the least collaborative globally, this finding indicates that researchers in the region are attractive to international collaborators and may be seeking such partnerships due to relatively modest research capacity at home.

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“…Prompted by an analysis of highly cited scientists in Latin America, Martinez and Sá (2020) stated that while yet a regional leader, as far as scienti c production is concerned, Brazil is still relatively peripheral to global science. Mc Manus et al (2020) argue that their ndings point in a different direction, one in which "Brazilian researchers are seen to be effectively collaborating to world prominent themes of high impact and to advance the innovative science".…”

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The influence of international scientific collaboration on the research performance of Brazilian academic institutions

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Docampo

2021

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Scientific collaboration, a practice that traces its roots back to the birth of modern science, has spread through the research community, expanding the ties between institutions and countries and becoming a strategy to improve research productivity. Collaboration with countries of renowned scientific leadership thus constitutes a clear opportunity for the scientific advancement of academics as well as institutions worldwide.This work focuses on the set of Brazilian papers indexed by InCites between 2010–2019 to analyze the advantages, measured in terms of the citation impact and percentage of publications in Q1 journals, as well as (just for the papers published between 2014 and 2018) the position in the ARWU Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, derived from the sustained scientific collaboration with institutions from Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and the United States. Our results show that collaboration with these four countries presents clear advantages for Brazilian institutions in all areas of knowledge. In particular, our study shows that the percentage of publications in Q1 journals doubles, and the citation impact increases markedly for the set of papers in collaboration with the aforementioned countries. Our study also shows that, by and large, Brazilian academic institutions benefit from these international collaborations to improve their positions in the current edition of the ARWU Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.Mathematical Subject Classification: 62J05 · 62P25JEL Classification: I23 · L14

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Highly Cited in the South: International Collaboration and Research Recognition Among Brazil’s Highly Cited Researchers

Cited by 21 publications

References 49 publications

International collaboration in Brazilian science: financing and impact

International collaboration in Brazilian science: financing and impact

A big picture: bibliometric study of academic publications from post-Soviet countries

The influence of international scientific collaboration on the research performance of Brazilian academic institutions

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