Bibliometric indicators in Physical Education research: Brazil in comparison

Scopus and Web of Science were used to evaluate papers on Physical Education worldwide and in Brazil. Most documents are published in the USA and England, Brazil being the 6^th largest. Brazilians tend to publish in Brazil. Countries with a higher % of documents in Q1 journals have higher % of top 10% cited documents. Most countries increase their Top 10% score when publishing in open access, while Brazil decreases. Differentiation between country clusters is due to % documents in Q1 journals, international collaboration, Open Access, citations/paper and documents in Top 10%. Brazil researches similar topics to those worldwide. Publishing in Q1 journals, and more industry and international collaboration can increase the impact of publications by Brazilian authors.

Keywords:
Impact; Collaboration; International; Open Access

From	To	Standardised Estimate
From	To	Worldwide	Brazil
No. Papers	% International	-0.34**	0.05
% Industry	% OA	0.24*	0.02
% International	% OA	-0.28*	-0.24**
% OA	% Q1	-0.36**	-0.40***
% OA	% Q4	0.28*	0.43***
% International	% Q1	0.47***	0.13*
% International	% Q4	-0.34**	-0.20*
% Industry	% Q1	0.38**	-0.11*
% Industry	% Q4	-0.35^* * P<0.05;	0.03
% Q4	% Docs Cited	-0.48^ P<0.01;	-0.24**
% Q1	% Docs Cited	0.08	-0.09*
% Docs Cited	CI	0.53**	0.21**
% Q1	CI	0.75^* ***** P<0.001.	0.05
% Q4	CI	0.38*	-0.05
% Docs Cited	% Top 10%	0.31*	0.22**
% Docs Cited	% Top 1%	0.31*	0.11*
% Q1	% Top 10%	0.80***	0.09*
% Q1	% Top 1%	0.72***	0.13*
% Q4	% Top 10%	0.19*	-0.02
% Q4	% Top 1%	0.34**	0.01
CI	CNCI	0.26**	0.89***
% Top 10%	CNCI	0.08	0.09*
% Top 1%	CNCI	0.65**	0.28*

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[1] *Corresponding author: Concepta McManus E-mail: concepta@unb.br