The Internationalisation of Psychology in Brazil: an Analysis of Scientific Outputs, Collaboration Networks and Their Impacts

Abstract

This article aims to analyse the process of internationalisation of scientific output in Brazilian psychology and its subfields and compare them with other countries from 2011 to 2020. Two other objectives were taken into consideration: to describe the collaboration networks formed by national psychology researchers and their influence on the impact of scientific output while analysing the relationships in the North–South and South-South axes and to reflect on the advance of the quality of the scientific output over time, considering the indicators of its scientific impact. We used SciVal, based on the Scopus database. The main result is that cooperation on the South-North axis was dominant compared to cooperation on the South-South and South-East axes. The paper also discusses the importance of public funding agencies and the growth of graduate programs in Brazil, enabling the increase in output and the internationalisation of national psychology. The final part addresses the limitations of the Scopus database and some guidelines for the future of the internationalisation of Brazilian psychology.