The Life Sciences - the relative contribution of the University of São Paulo to the highest impact factor journals and to those with the largest number of articles, 1980 to 1999

Jacqueline Leta; Júlio C. R. Pereira; Hernan Chaimovich

doi:10.1007/s11192-005-0230-2

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Volume/Issue:: Volume 63: Issue 3

The Life Sciences - the relative contribution of the University of São Paulo to the highest impact factor journals and to those with the largest number of articles, 1980 to 1999

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Jacqueline Leta

Jacqueline Leta Instituto de Bioquimica Medica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Programa de Educação, Gestão e Difusão em Bioci?ncias, Departamento de Bioquímica Médica, Bloco B - sala 39, Prédio do CCS, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. CEP 21941-590. Brazil

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Júlio C. R. Pereira

Júlio C. R. Pereira Laboratório de Epidemiologia e Estatística, Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

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Hernan Chaimovich

Hernan Chaimovich Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa, Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo, Brasil

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Pages:: 599–616

Online Publication Date:: 09 May 2005

Publication Date:: 01 Jun 2005

Article Category:: Research Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-005-0230-2

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Summary The contribution of Brazil to the database of the Institute for Scientific Information, ISI, has increased remarkably during the last years. Among the Brazilian research institutions, the publications of the University of São Paulo (USP) have been around 30& of the country's total publication within the ISI database. A similar share was found for USP's publications published in the 1980-1999 period and classified in the Life Sciences. This was observed in publications from both the highest impact factor journals and from those with the largest number of articles. We have found that the present share of USP's publications in some of the fields of the Life Sciences was much less than 30&, suggesting a gradual decentralization of the scientific activity in Brazil. The data point out that this set of USP's publications were concentrated in traditional and basic fields of biological research, where the focus is mainly oriented by international trends. The data suggest that USP's researchers have not been much devoted to some of the fields where research is oriented toward national issues.

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