Brazilian educational journals in SCOPUS: A bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Objective. The increase of scientific production during the last few years has aimed to carry out different bibliometric studies. In this line, this study analyses the Brazilian journals included in the impact index of the SCOPUS database, SCImago Journal Rank, in the category Education from 2000 to 2015. Method. In order to do this study, all the data related to the documents published in these journals during this period were downloaded from the SCOPUS database and frequency counts were made, they allowed to identify the patterns of production of documents by journal and by year, the most productive institutions and countries and to determine the degree of collaboration in authorship and the pattern of citation received. Results. The results show a significant increase in the production of these journals, but with a very local source in this scientific community and with a small number of citations per document.