IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/fgv/epgrbe/v62y2008i4a1105.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Economics Research in Brazil: An empirical Study of the Trade-off Between Quantity and Quality

Author

Listed:
  • novaes, Walter

Abstract

As several other professionals, economics researchers face a trade-off between quantity and quality. To evaluate this trade-off, I compare the publication records of 1209 professors of 54 top economics departments in the U.S. with the records of 94 professors in Brazil, who were awarded research grants by CNPq. The data show that, from 1999 to 2004, the CNPq researchers published a very small number of papers in international journals. Yet, they published more than their US peers, when we take into account publications in Brazilian journals. These findings suggest that the CNPq researchers sacrifice quality of research to achieve a larger number of publications.

Suggested Citation

  • novaes, Walter, 2008. "The Economics Research in Brazil: An empirical Study of the Trade-off Between Quantity and Quality," Revista Brasileira de Economia - RBE, EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance - FGV EPGE (Brazil), vol. 62(4), December.
    • Handle: RePEc:fgv:epgrbe:v:62:y:2008:i:4:a:1105
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rbe/article/view/1105
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Chagas , André Luis Squarize, 2017. "Publish or Perish: um ranking de revistas da subárea de Economia Regional e Urbana para os pesquisadores brasileiros," Revista Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos, Associação Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos (ABER), vol. 11(4), pages 515-536.
    2. Ian Coelho de Souza Almeida & Rafael Galvão de Almeida & Lucas Resende de Carvalho, 2017. "Academic rankings and pluralism : the case of Brazil and the new version of Qualis," Textos para Discussão Cedeplar-UFMG 569, Cedeplar, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
    3. João Ricardo Faria & Peter F. Wanke & João J. Ferreira & Franklin G. Mixon, 2018. "Research and innovation in higher education: empirical evidence from research and patenting in Brazil," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 116(1), pages 487-504, July.
    4. Eduardo A. Haddad & Jesus P. Mena-Chalco, Otávio J.G. Sidone, 2016. "Produção Científica e Redes de Colaboração dos Docentes Vinculados aos Programas de Pós-graduação em Economia no Brasil," Working Papers, Department of Economics 2016_10, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP).
    5. Guimaraes, Bernardo, 2011. "Qualis as a measuring stick for research output in Economics," Brazilian Review of Econometrics, Sociedade Brasileira de Econometria - SBE, vol. 31(1), March.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fgv:epgrbe:v:62:y:2008:i:4:a:1105. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Núcleo de Computação da FGV EPGE (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/epgvfbr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.