Increasing discrepancy between absolute and effective indexes of research output in a Brazilian academic department

AntÔnio F. Pereira De Araújo ()
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AntÔnio F. Pereira De Araújo: Universidade de Brasília

Scientometrics, 2008, vol. 74, issue 3, No 7, 425-437

Abstract: Abstract We investigate possible effects from a strong encouragement for a large number of publications on the scientific production of a Brazilian cell biology department. An average increase in individual absolute production and a concomitant decrease in individual participation in each paper were detected by traditional bibliometric parameters, such as number of publications, citations, impact factors and h index, combined to their “effective” versions, in which co-authorship is taken into consideration. The observed situation, which might well represent a national trend, should be considered as a strong warning against current criteria of scientific evaluation heavily based on uncritical counting of publications.

Date: 2008
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