Abstract
This research aims to conduct a diachronic study of the scientific production in the mathematics area with the presence of Brazilian researchers, based on Scopus from 2002 to 2011, identifying its impact on the international scientific community. Moreover, the study highlights the major journals in mathematics where these publications were disseminated, the most productive Brazilian institutions in this set of scientific publications, the main Brazilian partner countries in mathematics studies and visualizes the international network of scientific collaboration in which the country participates. Totally 12,240 articles with Brazilian authors were collected in the studied period. For each year, the annual growth rate of Brazilian scientific production in the area was calculated. The Brazilian scientific collaboration network with its main collaborators was visualized using the software Ucinet. It was observed that the Brazilian scientific production in the area presented a positive annual growth rate in medium and long term. Brazil’s mathematics research tends to have a significant impact and visibility internationally. The most productive Brazilian institutions have graduate programs and most are public universities. A significant part of Brazilian production in mathematics area was developed in international scientific collaboration.
Highlights
With continued strengthening in the country, the Brazilian scientific production in mathematics constitutes about 2% of the world’s scientific literature in the area, taking the 16th position in production rankings, as seen in SCImago Journal and Country Rank portal, in the period from 1996 to 2011.[4]. As a result of this significant presence in mainstream science, the use of methodologies to identify, highlight and analyze their impact and integration into the international arena becomes a necessity in order to contribute to the visualization of its main actors, as well as provide insight to decision making that enable planning development strategies
In the analysis and evaluation process of scientific literature, the bibliometric analysis provides an objective view of the performance and impact of a group of scientific researchers.[5]
Some hypotheses can be raised to explain the increase of Brazilian research internationalization: (1) Greater access to mainstream science, leveraged by the use of the Brazil’s journal portal, made available from November 2000 and currently consolidated as one of the largest virtual libraries in the world, providing vital content for Brazilian research, ensuring density to Brazilian science; (2) greater inclusion of Brazilian scientific production in internationally indexed journals; (3) greater inclusion and openness to Brazilian journals by mainstream science, which are indexed in greater numbers, motivated by Brazilian assessment criteria of graduate courses, which has strongly valued the scientific production disseminated in journals with higher impact factors, measured by international databases.[15]
Summary
In light of the presented issues, this research aims to analyze the Brazilian scientific contribution in the mathematics area to the mainstream science, through articles published in journals indexed in Scopus in order to visualize its insertion and its impact on international area in the period from 2002 to 2011. In Brazil, despite the scarce studies that identify the growth model in the mathematics area, advances are observed in the databases regarding Brazilian research, taking the 16th position in the accumulated ranking of scientific production in the last decade, as observed on the portal SCImagoJR Country Rankings, with scientometric indicators of international indexed science in Scopus.
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