Table 7.
Brazilian participation in the top 500 prominence clusters worldwide in each area of knowledge (SciVal® 2014–2019)
| Number clustersa | FWCIb world |
FWCIc Brazil |
Citations/paper | SJR | Citescore | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 197 | 0.88 | 1.23 | 7.77 | 0.91 | 2.09 |
| Engineering | 459 | 0.90 | 1.12 | 9.01 | 1.22 | 3.07 |
| Natural sci | 497 | 1.01 | 1.29 | 9.72 | 1.32 | 2.88 |
| Medical sci | 499 | 0.96 | 2.43 | 15.74 | 1.70 | 2.97 |
| Social sci | 232 | 0.89 | 1.11 | 5.22 | 0.83 | 1.54 |
| Humanities | 101 | 0.79 | 1.07 | 1.96 | 0.43 | 0.72 |
aNumber of clusters in top 500 worldwide where Brazilian authors publish in collaboration with foreign authors
bMean FWCI on a worldwide basis for the clusters studied
cFWCI Brazilian authors in topic clusters in top 500 worldwide