Evaluation of the scientific production of Brazilian federal universities indexed in Scopus (2013 - 2022)

Lopes, Arleson Eduardo Monte Palma; Almeida, Oriana Trindade de

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Article • RDBCI : Rev. Digit. Bibl. e Cienc. Inf. 22 • 2024 • https://doi.org/10.20396/rdbci.v22i00.8675098/en copy

Evaluation of the scientific production of Brazilian federal universities indexed in Scopus (2013 - 2022)

Authorship SCIMAGO INSTITUTIONS RANKINGS

ABSTRACT

Introduction:

Evaluating scientific production in bibliographic databases recognized by the scientific community allows us to use indicators to analyze the productivity metrics of researchers, universities and countries, in terms of publications and citations.

Objective:

The aim of this article is to evaluate the behavior of the scientific production of federal universities in the Southeast and North regions between 2013 and 2022, in the Scopus bibliographic database.

Methodology:

The methodology was based on a technical bibliometric study procedure and a quantitative approach, using bibliographic information collected from Scopus. The selection criteria for the universities were the Folha University Ranking, from Folha de São Paulo and Times Higher Education, which resulted in the selection of the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the Federal University of São Paulo, in the Southeast, and the Federal University of Pará and the Federal University of Amazonas, in the North.

Results:

The results showed that the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the Federal University of São Paulo had higher numbers of publications indexed in Scopus than the Federal University of Pará and the Federal University of Amazonas. Among the universities selected, the Federal University of Minas Gerais had an average of 3,275.1 documents indexed between 2013 and 2022, while the Federal University of Amazonas had an average of 343 documents indexed in the period analyzed. With regard to the language of the documents indexed in Scopus from the universities analyzed, there is a concentration of texts in English.

Conclusion:

It can be concluded that the discrepancies in the number of publications indexed in Scopus between the universities are linked to the disparities in the technical-scientific base between the Brazilian regions.

KEYWORDS:
Scientific production; Information metrics studies; Bibliometric indicators; Scopus

Selected universities	Region	FUR/THE
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	South East	Fourth position
Universidade Federal de São Paulo	South East	Sixteenth position (5th in Latin America and 2nd in the state of São Paulo)
Universidade Federal do Pará	North	Twenty-ninth position (and 1st in the North)
Universidade Federal do Amazonas	North	Sixtieth position (and 2nd in the North)

Type of publication	Average/year		Standard deviation		Median		Maximum		Minimum
	UFMG	UNIFESP	UFMG	UNIFESP	UFMG	UNIFESP	UFMG	UNIFESP	UFMG	UNIFESP
Article	2.709,8	1.563	322,7	215,6	2.654	1.481	3.232	1.988	2.370	1.330
Conference	206,3	42	33,8	8,3	213	41	245	52	144	27
Review article	182,9	160	67	52	197	150	244	244	88	98
Book chapter	56,7	34	14,6	9,1	52	36	93	45	41	22
Note	22,2	31	5,6	9,4	22	29	35	53	15	18
Letter	34,1	82	6,4	31,8	31	69	45	139	28	49
Editorial	35,1	44	15,3	8,4	35	43	58	59	15	34
Errata	15,5	10	7,1	4,7	16	11	28	17	6	2
Short research	7,4	8	3,2	5,6	8	7	10	18	3	1
Book	3,7	2	1,3	1,4	4	2	6	5	1	0
Data paper	1,4	1	2	0,9	0	1	5	2	0	0
Total publications	3.275.1	1.978	394,2	300,9	3.255	1.864	3.893	2.562	2.803	1.650

Type of publication	Average/year		Standard deviation		Median		Maximum		Minimum
Type of publication	UFAM	UFPA	UFAM	UFPA	UFAM	UFPA	UFAM	UFPA	UFAM	UFPA
Article	291,1	786,5	68,4	192,7	265	736	421	1.107	216	553
Conference	24,8	38,9	4,8	22	24	41	34	73	18	8
Review article	14,1	34,1	7,2	14,3	13	35	32	61	6	15
Book chapter	4,6	5,7	2,7	3,5	4	6	9	11	1	1
Note	2,7	9.8	1,6	3,2	3	9	6	15	0	6
Letter	2,6	1,6	1,4	1,9	2	1	6	6	1	0
Editorial	1,5	4,1	1	2,8	1	4	4	8	0	1
Errata	1,4	4,3	0,5	1,9	1	4	2	7	1	1
Short research	0,3	3,4	0,6	2	0	2	2	7	0	1
Book	0,2	0,1	0,4	0,3	0	0	1	1	0	0
Data paper	0,4	0,7	0,7	0,5	0	1	2	1	0	0
Total publications	343,7	889,2	75,2	207,8	318	856	487	1.232	255	623

Years	Article		Conference		Review article		Total publications
Years	UFMG	UNIFESP	UFMG	UNIFESP	UFMG	UFMG	UNIFESP	UFMG
2013-2014	-0,4%	4,4%	6,3%	2%	30,7%	-6,7%	2%	3,6%
2014-2015	1,9%	3,2%	-6,4%	2%	-12,2%	8,2%	-0,1%	4,7%
2015-2016	-1,3%	-6,1%	9,8%	-17,3%	37,6%	29,2%	3,0%	-4,9%
2016-2017	8,8%	4,8%	8,9%	-9,3%	36,7%	-0,7%	8,1%	4,9%
2017-2018	4,9%	8,4%	-4,1%	30,8%	10,5%	19,1%	4,8%	8,5%
2018-2019	7,3%	6,1%	2,1%	-29,4%	-3,3%	2.5%	6,2%	3,6%
2019-2020	10,7%	8,9%	-17,9%	-25%	20,2%	47%	9,7%	14%
2020-2021	0,2%	12,5%	-26,9%	33,3%	25,4%	-0,8%	0,3%	12%
2021-2022	-11,2%	-8,5%	2,1%	-2,8%	-23,9%	-14%	-10,8%	-8,4%
Total fee	20,9%	33,7%	- 26,1%	- 15,7%	121,7%	83,8%	23,2%	38%

Years	Article		Conference		Review article		Total publications
Years	UFAM	UFPA	UFAM	UFPA	UFAM	UFAM	UFPA	UFAM
2013-2014	-6,5%	2%	27,8%	-11,1%	16,7%	-41%	-5,9%	-2,5%
2014-2015	10,6%	7,8%	47,8%	125%	128,6%	38,9%	20,8%	13,2%
2015-2016	-2,1%	13,2%	-35,3%	88,9%	-37,5%	-28%	-10,4%	11,1%
2016-2017	9,0%	-2,5%	40,9%	-20,6%	-10%	-27,8%	10,9%	-2,9%
2017-2018	7,8%	16,7%	-6,5%	140,7%	22,2%	76,9%	6,9%	22,2%
2018-2019	8,4%	10,1%	-17,2%	-24,6%	27,3%	-26,1%	6,1%	4,8%
2019-2020	28,5%	18,7%	4,2%	18,4%	21,4%	-55,9%	28,2%	16,6%
2020-2021	9,9%	8,2%	-20%	25,9%	88,2%	40%	9,4%	8,5%
2021-2022	-14,7%	-9,1%	10%	-34,2%	-40,6%	-23,8%	-14,8%	-9,8%
Total fee	50,9%	65,1%	51,7%	308,4%	216,3%	- 46%	51,2%	61,2%

Languages	UFAM	%	UFPA	%	UNIFESP	%	UFMG	%
English	2,913	80.5	7,316	78.8	18,073	84.2	28,668	83.1
Portuguese	670	18.5	1,847	19.9	3,134	14.6	5,430	15.7
Spanish	29	0.80	112	1.21	237	1.10	329	0.95
French	4	0.11	10	0.11	23	0.11	51	0.15
German	0.00	0.00	2	0.02	1	0.005	4	0.01
Italian	1	0.03	0.00	0.00	1	0.005	6	0.02
Russian	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	1	0.005	2	0.006
Polish	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	4	0.019	2	0.006
Total	3,617	100	9,287	100	21,474	100	34,492	100

Year	UFAM	UFPA	UNIFESP	UFMG
2013	0.42	0.50	1.22	1.11
2014	0.37	0.46	1.19	1.11
2015	0.42	0.49	1.27	1.09
2016	0.35	0.49	1.16	1.06
2017	0.36	0.44	1.12	1.13
2018	0.35	0.51	1.24	1.17
2019	0.34	0.51	1.18	1.19
2020	0.42	0.57	1.44	1.32
2021	0.45	0.60	1.51	1.32
2022	0.36	0.52	1.47	1.16

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