Internacionalização dos programas de pós-graduação no campo das Engenharias da UFBA a partir da coautoria expressa na produção dos docentes-pesquisadores indexada na Web of Science, 2013-2022

Abstract

Relevant since the end of the 20th century, internalization has been vital to scientific, technological, and financial development, improving the quality of scientific activities, assisting on disseminating information, and promoting international collaborations. Internalization is an important criteria for scientific production from Brazilian postgraduate programs, which are evaluation indicators of collaboration, diffusion, and international impact, aiming to amplify national science’s projection. Likewise, international co-authorship is a scientific collaboration and visibility indicator of the country, and scientific collaboration takes shape through social relations among researchers with common goals. Therefore, international co-authorship analysis happens through the evaluation of joint publications amidst countries. Research highlights scientific collaboration networks’ relevance to map practices and to contribute to science and technology policies. This study aims to comprehend UFBA’s Engineering field postgraduate programs’ internalization through the coauthorship present on teachers-researchers scientific production indexed on Web of Science (WoS). More specifically, this research pursued mapping international coauthorship on UFBA’s Engineering field postgraduate programs’ scientific production of teachers-researchers, indexed on WoS, between 2013 and 2022; analyzing international collaborations’ impact on said postgraduate programs; and identifying countries and foreign institutions that have been significantly contributing to said teachers-researchers’ scientific production during the studied period. As results, it can be highlighted that, with the exception of the Mechanical Engineering program, all the investigated postgraduate programs displayed a greater percentage of publications between 2018 and 2022. It was also evident that there is a tendency for publications in English by Engineerings’ teachers-researchers in the last decade, having in mind that the publication on high-level periodicals is crucial to the internalization of the postgraduate programs. The Chemical Engineering, Production Engineering (P7 and P8), and Mechanical Engineering programs, between 2017 and 2020, aimed on publishing their articles preferentially on A1 periodicals, considered of international excellence. These periodicals are mainly European, such as from the Netherlands and England. The analysis of the publications’ geographical distribution reveals that the Engineerings’ postgraduate programs’ articles were published in American, Asian, and European countries, predominantly in the USA, the Netherlands, and England. Lastly, it was noticed that there is a necessity to amplify studies on the internalization of postgraduate programs in the Engineering field, through the analysis of other productions as well, such as scientific books, annals, book chapters, and patents.