Abstract
Essential to economic growth in Brazil, agricultural research is one of the most productive areas of national science. In recent years, an increase in publications from the field on international databases has helped raise the country's ranking in terms of global scientific output. This is attributable to factors such as the expansion of graduate programs, increased investment in research and the larger collection of Brazilian scientific journals in Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. The present study analyzes the influence of national journals on the performance of Brazilian output in Agricultural Science represented in WoS from 2002 to 2011, and raises new questions in the debate over the growth of Brazilian scientific output in the last decade. Based on an analysis of 42,106 articles with at least one Brazilian author, papers were mapped in order to identify and characterize the journals used for publication. Results show that the number of articles in the field increased 301.52% during the period studied, due to the expansion of Brazilian journals in WoS and an increase in the number of issues published by these journals. Following inclusion on the database, several journals increased their periodicity. Half of the output assessed was published in national journals, many of which have only recently been included in WoS, are edited in Portuguese and exhibit a low impact factor. The inclusion of new Brazilian titles on the database and changes to the periodicity of journals can be interpreted as signs of improvement in Brazilian agricultural science journals.
Highlights
In the last decades, Agricultural research has gained ground as one of the most productive fields of Brazilian science in terms of the number of indexed publications on international databases
This study aimed to analyze the influence of national journals on the performance of Brazilian scientific output in Agricultural Science represented in Web of Science (WoS) between 2002 and 2011
Between 2006 and 2008, another 24 national Agricultural Science journals - many published by universities, mostly containing articles from Brazilian researchers and written in Portuguese - were incorporated into WoS
Summary
Agricultural research has gained ground as one of the most productive fields of Brazilian science in terms of the number of indexed publications on international databases. This performance is closely related to greater public investment in research and development (R and D) and the expansion of graduate programs in the various areas of Agricultural Science.[1,2,3] More recently, the increasing number of Brazilian journals in multidisciplinary databases, such as Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus, Access this article online Quick Response Code: Website: www.jscires.org. Brazil ranked first among the ten countries with the largest increase in representation, with 34 journals indexed, followed by India, with 21 journals, Poland, with 15 journals, and Japan, with 14 journals.[9]
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