Programas de cooperação acadêmica internacional e pesquisas colaborativas: resultados e tendências

Pablo Gabriel Ferreira; Concepta Margaret McManus Pimentel; Leandro Innocentini Lopes de Faria

doi:10.5433/1981-8920.2022v27n3p535

Authors

Pablo Gabriel Ferreira Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0934-0338
Concepta Margaret McManus Pimentel University of Brasilia - UnB https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1106-8962
Leandro Innocentini Lopes de Faria Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8369-1315

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1981-8920.2022v27n3p535

Keywords:

Academic cooperation, International collaborative research, Research policy evaluation, Bibliometrics

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this study is to answer the question: do academic cooperation programs effectively encourage international collaborative research?
Methodology: To assess the increase in international collaborations, co-authorships of publications in scientific journals will be used as a proxy. As an evaluation technique, a before and after analysis was applied. Data from Capes' corporate databases (open data on projects) was crossed with data obtained from the Scopus database (data on co-authorship). Projects financed between 2015 and 2020 by Capes were analyzed. The basic idea was to compare the number of publications in international co-authorships before and after the implementation of joint research projects. In this regard, we propose the concept of average incremental growth of international collaboration in research.
Results: After implementing the joint projects, a global average of incremental growth of 31% in international collaborations were found. The institutions and regions with less tradition with international partnerships were more responsive to the cooperation programs.
Conclusions: As policy advice, it is recommended to diversify the cooperation programs regarding their targets and to design separate international collaboration policies focusing on less consolidated institutions and regions regarding international partnerships.

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Author Biographies

Pablo Gabriel Ferreira, Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar

PhD student in Science, Technology and Society at the Graduate Program of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), São Carlos, Brazil. Technical advisor at the federal authority National Data Protection Authority (ANPD).

Concepta Margaret McManus Pimentel, University of Brasilia - UnB

PhD in Philosophy from the University of Oxford. Full professor at the University of Brasília (UnB), Brasília, Brazil and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Leandro Innocentini Lopes de Faria, Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar

PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) and in Information and Communication Science from the Aix-Marseille University (AMU). Professor of the Graduate Programs in Science, Technology and Society and in Information Science at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), São Carlos, Brazil.

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