Bibliometric Indicators in Physical Education Research: Brazil in comparison
Impact; Collaboration; Industry; International; Open Access
Papers in SciVal® based on Scopus ® and InCites ® based on Web of Science ® for Physical Education were evaluated worldwide and in Brazil. Analyses included Cluster, Discriminant, Canonical and Factorial Analyses, to differentiate between countries worldwide and universities in Brazil. Most common topics studied in Brazil and worldwide were also researched. Most documents worldwide are published in the USA (46%) and England (26%), followed by three other European nations, with Brazil being the 6th largest publishing country (1.7%). In contrast, Brazilian authors tend to publish more within their own country (40%). There is a tendency for the countries with higher percentage of documents in Q1 journals to also have higher percentage of top 10% cited documents (R2=0.73 for all documents and 0.92 for open access). When comparing all documents with those in open access, most countries increase their Top 10% score, while Brazil decreases by 1%. The variables that differentiate between country clusters include % documents in Q1 journals, % International collaboration, % Open Access, Citation Impact (number of Citations per paper) and % Document sin Top 10%. The correlation between number of publications per topic worldwide and Brazil is 0.79. Increases in publishing in Q1 journals, as well as more industry and international collaboration are indicated for increasing impact of publications by Brazilian authors in physical education. Funding should be provided to help with the payment of Article Processing Charges in high impact Open Access journals.