The study of international collaborations can help in understanding the benefits of such relationships and aid in developing national financing policies. In this paper, the international collaboration of Brazilian scientists was studied using SciVal® and Incites® database, looking at its effect on the universities, financing agencies and different areas of knowledge and research topic clusters. Cluster and principal component analyses of scientometric data were carried out. While the results confirmed known knowledge that international collaboration increases impact, this study shows that Brazilian researchers are contributing to prominent research topics worldwide, in all areas of knowledge. This finding is contrary to several points of view that identify Brazil as a regional and not an international partner in science. Important also to note the impact of Brazilian authors in international collaboration that is well above the world mean. The collaboration of Brazil with foreign partners brings benefits for both sides, creating the opportunity of Brazilian research access to financing from international agencies. Increases in measures of impact are also seen for both sides. Foreign partners likewise benefit from higher impact factors in the same topic cluster, when collaborating with Brazilian partners. Publishing open access in high impact journals is fundamental for maintaining Brazilian science at the forefront. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s11192-020-03728-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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巴西科学领域的国际合作：融资和影响


对国际合作的研究有助于了解这种关系的好处，并有助于制定国家融资政策。本文使用 SciVal® 和 Incites® 数据库研究了巴西科学家的国际合作，探讨其对大学、融资机构以及不同领域的知识和研究主题集群的影响。对科学计量数据进行聚类分析和主成分分析。虽然结果证实了已知的国际合作会增加影响力的知识，但这项研究表明，巴西研究人员正在为全球所有知识领域的突出研究课题做出贡献。这一发现与一些将巴西视为区域科学伙伴而不是国际科学伙伴的观点相反。还值得注意的是，巴西作家在国际合作中的影响力远高于世界平均水平。巴西与外国合作伙伴的合作为双方带来了利益，为巴西研究创造了获得国际机构融资的机会。双方的影响措施也有所增加。在与巴西合作伙伴合作时，外国合作伙伴同样受益于同一主题群中更高的影响因子。在高影响力期刊上发表开放获取是保持巴西科学前沿的基础。电子补充材料 本文的在线版本 (10.1007/s11192-020-03728-7) 包含补充材料，可供授权用户使用。