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Concentration of science in Brazilian governmental universities

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Brazilian university-based science has grown rapidly in the last 20 years. Most of the PhD-level teaching, research, and technical publications are based in the government-supported universities, although there are also privately supported universities, which educate a large fraction of Brazilian attorney, business people, and other professions. We investigate here the relationship between type of university, numbers of degree program offered, number of faculty members, and number of published papers. Twelve universities, all government supported, are found to produce a very large fraction of publications and to house the best qualified PhD programs. We find that there is a strong correlation between research carried out with foreign collaborators and rate at which the resulting publications are cited. This trend is characteristic of many developing and less developed nations.

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  1. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Departamento de Bioquímica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitária, RJ (, Brazil)

    Andréa Velloso & Denise Lannes

  2. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Departamento de Bioquímica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitária, RJ, 21941-590, Brazil

    Leopoldo de Meis

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Velloso, A., Lannes, D. & de Meis, L. Concentration of science in Brazilian governmental universities. Scientometrics 61, 207–220 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:SCIE.0000041649.24713.ca

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