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Recognition and international collaboration: the Brazilian case

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The number of Brazilian publications in the Institute for Scientific Information database, ISI, increased significantly in the last 20 years, comprising more than 1 percent of the database in the last two years. The relationship between size and recognition of Brazilian science, estimated by number of ISI-indexed publications, p, and citations, c, obeyed a power law, c = k pn. The value of n, a known indicator of such relationship was 1.42 ± 0.04, significantly higher than that found for the whole set of ISI-indexed world publications. The recent growth of Brazilian publication was not solely due to international collaboration, since over the last six years international collaboration, estimated as the percentage of Brazilian publications having at least one foreign address, reached a constant value of ca. 30%. International collaboration increased the impact of Brazilian publications. Although the most frequent collaborating countries are those that produce the largest percentage of world"s science, Brazilian collaboration with Argentina and Chile exhibit impacts comparable to the major science producers.

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  1. Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa, Universidade de Săo Paulo, Rua da Reitoria 109, Sala 28, Săo Paulo, Brazil, 00508-900

    Jacqueline Leta

  2. Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa, Universidade de Săo Paulo, Săo Paulo, (Brazil)

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Leta, J., Chaimovich, H. Recognition and international collaboration: the Brazilian case. Scientometrics 53, 325–335 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014868928349

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