Abstract
The Brazilian Little Way in Academia
Highlights
Is it possible to expect jeitinho among Brazilian scholars? If we can’t escape culture, sooner or later one of us in academia will be practicing it in some of our activities: research, teaching or publishing
Academics working in larger co-author teams and who have a larger total coauthor network are more cited” (p. 23)
There are two ways to follow in academic life: productivity or quality
Summary
Is it possible to expect jeitinho among Brazilian scholars? If we can’t escape culture, sooner or later one of us in academia will be practicing it in some of our activities: research, teaching or publishing. They continue: “The increasing popular policy that allows researchers to hand in only their five or so best publications seems in the light of these results counterproductive, as it disadvantages the most productive and best researchers” This is opposed to the slow-science movement, where the underlying idea is that quality and not quantity should dominate – and that with all the emphasis on numbers of publications, the system has become corrupted.
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