The Economics Research in Brazil: An empirical Study of the Trade-off Between Quantity and Quality

Walter Novaes

Revista Brasileira de Economia - RBE, 2008, vol. 62, issue 4

Abstract: As several other professionals, economics researchers face a trade-off between quantity and quality. To evaluate this trade-off, I compare the publication records of 1209 professors of 54 top economics departments in the U.S. with the records of 94 professors in Brazil, who were awarded research grants by CNPq. The data show that, from 1999 to 2004, the CNPq researchers published a very small number of papers in international journals. Yet, they published more than their US peers, when we take into account publications in Brazilian journals. These findings suggest that the CNPq researchers sacrifice quality of research to achieve a larger number of publications.

Date: 2008
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