The scientific production of speech and language pathologists professors linked to brazilian public higher education institutions

Brazilian scientific production is the result of research carried out mainly in the country's university system. The aim of this study was to know the scientific production of the speech and language pathologists professors linked to the courses of public higher education institutions in Brazil. The 24 courses were identified and the 383 professors linked to them were requested. Scriplattes software was used to extract and analyze data related to the production of journal articles, book chapters and books, from data available in the Lattes Platform curriculum. It was also identified in which journals the professors publish their research, as well as their evaluation. From 2014 to 2018, 2711 articles were published in journals, 965 book chapters and 130 books, some of them in collaboration between the courses. The journal with the largest number of publications is the Revista CEFAC, which has a Qualis B1 rating in the Physical Education area and is not indexed to the Journal Citation Reports or Scopus. It was concluded that the scientific production of speech, language and hearing sciences professors is mainly characterized by the publication of scientific articles, presented a decrease in the analyzed period, there is an active participation of most regions of the country in the scientific production of the area and the journals chosen for the dissemination of their articles are not indexed to international databases and are in the stratum B of the Qualis Physical Education area.

Keywords:
Speech; language and hearing sciences. Higher education. Scientific publication indicators