A comparison of performances of Brazilian and Chinese Universities in academic and industrial products using the “U-Multirank”

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AbstractBackground and aimsThe present work studies the performances of Brazilian and Chinese Universities considering academic and industrial related products. A comparison of the behavior of Universities that belong to these two countries are important, because they have similar characteristics and both of them are considered to be emergent countries, being part of the group known as BRICS.MethodsThe data is obtained from the “U-Multirank” in the years from 2017 to 2020, which are recent, but not yet affected by the pandemic, since the results for the year 2020 were obtained in 2019. This ranking used 36 Indicators in those years, with some of them related to academic production (number of papers published, citations received by the papers, etc); while some others are related to industrial products (number of patents obtained, citations made in patents, etc). This analysis is made for the average performances of Brazilian, Chinese and all the universities listed in the “U-Multirank” in the years under study.ResultsThe results show the number of institutions listed every year and the average grades of Brazilian and Chinese institutions, as well as the world averages, in all the Indicators studied.ConclusionsThe results show that Chinese Institutions have a good balance in terms of quantity and quality of academic researches, with both numbers ahead of world averages. Brazil is better in quantity of publications compared to quality, having grades similar to China in number of publications and well above world averages, but the indicators “Citation Rate” and “Top-cited” publications are well below world and Chinese averages.