TY - JOUR
T1 - The perception of Brazilian researchers concerning the factors that influence the citation of their articles
T2 - a study in the field of sustainability
AU - Jabbour, Charbel José Chiappetta
AU - Jabbour, Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa
AU - de Oliveira, Jorge Henrique Caldeira
PY - 2013/12/6
Y1 - 2013/12/6
N2 - With growing institutional pressure from the Brazilian government to increase the impact of research that it funds, Brazilian researchers are increasingly interested in discovering factors that affect the citation of their articles. The aim of the present article was to assess the perceptions of Brazilian sustainability researchers to identify factors that influence the impacts of their research. A survey was conducted with researchers in the field of sustainability and 89 questionnaires were completed. All of those researchers have articles or research projects in the field of sustainability (mixing environmental, social and/or economical) recorded in the Scielo or Lattes Curriculum Brazilian databases. Results suggest four factors that may explain the impact of article citations: (1) "prestige of the author and the research network;" (2) "prestige of the means of publication and indexing;" (3) "accessibility and quality characteristics of the article;" and (4) "international nature of communication and scope of the study". Surprisingly, such factors were not statistically significant in explaining the citations of the participating researchers. These results show the need to consider other factors that can explain the impact of research, discovering the missing links.
AB - With growing institutional pressure from the Brazilian government to increase the impact of research that it funds, Brazilian researchers are increasingly interested in discovering factors that affect the citation of their articles. The aim of the present article was to assess the perceptions of Brazilian sustainability researchers to identify factors that influence the impacts of their research. A survey was conducted with researchers in the field of sustainability and 89 questionnaires were completed. All of those researchers have articles or research projects in the field of sustainability (mixing environmental, social and/or economical) recorded in the Scielo or Lattes Curriculum Brazilian databases. Results suggest four factors that may explain the impact of article citations: (1) "prestige of the author and the research network;" (2) "prestige of the means of publication and indexing;" (3) "accessibility and quality characteristics of the article;" and (4) "international nature of communication and scope of the study". Surprisingly, such factors were not statistically significant in explaining the citations of the participating researchers. These results show the need to consider other factors that can explain the impact of research, discovering the missing links.
KW - area of sustainability
KW - bibliometrics
KW - Brazil
KW - citation analysis
KW - impact of research
KW - South America
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84878980241&partnerID=40&md5=c62e128e54d50ab2a6a3bb35148dfd2d
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usrv20/current
U2 - 10.1016/j.serrev.2013.03.001
DO - 10.1016/j.serrev.2013.03.001
M3 - Article
SN - 1879-095X
VL - 39
SP - 93
EP - 96
JO - Serials Review
JF - Serials Review
IS - 2
ER -