Marcelo Antônio Cartaxo Queiroga Lopes et al. David Brasil Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira
In a report by Clarivate Analytics for the Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher-Level-Education Personnel (CAPES) about the Brazilian research productivity between 2013 and 2018, Brazil ranked 13th (250 680 publications) among countries with the highest research productivity, corresponding to 11% and 16% of the first ranked countries, United States and China, respectively., In that period, the publications in Brazil increased by 30%, twice the global mean, with over 50 000 articles published in 2018 only.
A good example of that increase has been described in the study analyzing the number of papers published in Nature and Science from the University of São Paulo, University of Campinas, and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, from 1980 onwards. The publication counts were categorized by decade from 1980 to 2010 and for 2017. The authors have reported that those institutions together published 0.08 papers, on average, in each edition of those two journals. The total number of papers from those universities increased by 2200% from 1980 to 2017, with a higher representativity in the past decade (from 7 papers in 2010 to 23 in 2017). It is worth noting the increase in partnership with international institutions for the publication of scientific papers.
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