The list is comprised of the first 6,000 profiles
Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (USP/ESALQ) is represented by its faculty in numerous positions in the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. Based on data collected during the fourth week of April 2015, Webometrics published a ranking of scientists from Brazilian institutions according to their public profiles on Google Scholar Citations.
The list considers the public profiles of researchers working in Brazilian institutions, and it was prepared in accordance with their declared (voluntarily) presence in the Google Scholar Citations database. The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, which publishes the web ranking or webometrics, is an initiative of Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. The CSIC is one of the first research organizations in Europe, consisting in 2006 of 126 centers and institutes distributed throughout Spain.
The list consists of the first 6,000 profiles (of over 33,000 profiles), ranked by their h-index in decreasing order and, when ties appear, it is considered the total number of citations. The h-index is a proposal to quantify the productivity and impact of scientists taking into account their most cited articles. This indicator reflects the number of articles with the same amount of citations or more than that number.
Google Scholar is a large base of bibliographic data, free of charge, which is especially useful for bibliometric purposes as it provides the number of citations received by articles included in it, and lists them. Its current size is more than 160 million original documents, many with links to full versions of texts, openly available. The coverage of the database exceeds by almost three times that of competitors such as WoS / Thomson or Scopus / Elsevier.
Considering the Brazilian institutions, the University of São Paulo (USP) leads with 1,796 authors, and among the São Paulo public universities, Unicamp has 538 professors and Unesp has 486.
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Written by: Caio Albuquerque
Support: Tobias de Paula Lima Souza
Translated by: Tobias de Paula Lima Souza
Photo by: Gerhard Waller
Acom (ESALQ’s Office of Communications)
May 8th, 2015
