{"id":360225,"date":"2020-11-09T16:30:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T19:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=360225"},"modified":"2020-11-09T16:30:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T19:30:06","slug":"scientific-publications-by-country-number-of-authors-and-number-of-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/scientific-publications-by-country-number-of-authors-and-number-of-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific publications by country: number of authors and number of articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 State of US Science and Engineering report, published by the National Science Foundation (NSF, USA), shows the number of scientific articles<sup>1<\/sup> per country from 2000 to 2018, presented in two forms.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Figure 1<\/strong> shows the top 20 countries (in 2018) when the number of authors from each country is counted proportionally (fractional count<sup>2<\/sup>). According to this method, of the countries that publish the most articles in international journals, Brazil rose from 17<sup>th<\/sup> in the year 2000 to 11<sup>th<\/sup> in 2018, when the number of articles attributed to the country was 60,147.96.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<picture data-tablet=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/095_Dados_288-1-tablet-es.png\" data-tablet_size=\"1900x1333\" alt=\"\">\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/095_Dados_288-1-desktop-es.png\" media=\"(min-width: 1920px)\" \/>\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/095_Dados_288-1-tablet-es.png\" media=\"(min-width: 1140px)\" \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/095_Dados_288-1-mobile-es.png\" \/>\n  <\/picture>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Figure 2<\/strong> shows the classification when the articles are fully counted for every country represented among the authors (full count<sup>3<\/sup>). Under this method, Brazil rose from 18<sup>th<\/sup> in the year 2000 to 14<sup>th<\/sup> in 2018, when researchers from the country were included among the authors of 73,073 papers.<\/li>\n<li>Of the 20 leading countries in 2018, Brazil had the 6<sup>th<\/sup> highest annual growth (8.98%) in the fractional count, and the 5<sup>th<\/sup> largest (9.07%) in the full count.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br \/>\n<p class=\"bibliografia separador-bibliografia\"><strong>Notes (1)<\/strong> SCOPUS\/Elsevier database, peer-reviewed science and engineering articles published in journals and conference proceedings (<a href=\"https:\/\/ncses.nsf.gov\/pubs\/nsb20206\/technical-appendix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/ncses.nsf.gov\/pubs\/nsb20206\/technical-appendix\/<\/a>).\u00a0 <strong>(2)<\/strong> Fractional count of each country represented among all the authors of the article. This method was used by the NSF in the body of its report because it eliminates repeat counts for articles with multiple authors from multiple countries. With this method, the sum of articles from each country is the total number of articles published each year.\u00a0 <strong>(3)<\/strong> Full count of one article for each country represented among the authors. With this method, an article can be counted several times, once for each country represented among its authors.<\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"bibliografia\"><strong>Sources<\/strong>\u00a0 Publications output: U.S. trends and international comparisons (Tab. nsb20206-tabs05a-002.xlsx). Science and Engineering Indicators 2020, National Science Foundation, USA. <a href=\"https:\/\/ncses.nsf.gov\/pubs\/nsb20206\/publication-output-by-region-country-or-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/ncses.nsf.gov\/pubs\/nsb20206\/publication-output-by-region-country-or-economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2020 State of US Science and Engineering report, published by the National Science Foundation, shows the number of scientific articles per country from 2000 to 2018","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1328],"tags":[215],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-360225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","tag-scientometrics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360966,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360225\/revisions\/360966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360225"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=360225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}