Open Science Practices of the Brazilian academic community: A study based on scientifi c production

Abstract Open Science represents a new approach to scientifi c work, resulting from the fast development of interactive and collaborative modes of knowledge acquisition, production, and dissemination facilitated by information technologies. The term is used as an “umbrella” encompassing a set of initiatives, including Open Access and Open Data. This paper, with a scientometric approach, uses the Brazilianscientifi c production of articles published in journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection during the 2015-2018 period, to investigate the practices of the Brazilian academic community related to Open Access and Open Data. A stable growth of Open Access articles, representing more than a third of the Brazilian scientifi c production in the Web of Science, is observed during that period. Publication in Open Access international mega journals is a prominent practice, particularly, in the Agriculture and Science & Technologies research communities, as well as the deposit in repositories of previously published articles in Open Access journals. Practices related to Open Data still seem incipient; the results suggest that the deposit/use of Open Data repositories predominates in the areas of Science & Technology, Parasitology and Genetics & Heredity.

摘要 开放科学（Open Science）是一种新兴的科研工作范式，其源于信息技术推动下的知识获取、生产与传播的交互式协作模式的快速演进。该术语作为总括性概念，涵盖了包括开放获取（Open Access）与开放数据（Open Data）在内的一系列科研举措。本文采用科学计量学（scientometrics）方法，以2015-2018年间收录于Web of Science核心合集（Web of Science Core Collection）期刊的巴西学术论文产出为研究样本，探究巴西学术社群在开放获取与开放数据领域的实践现状。研究期内，开放获取论文呈现稳定增长态势，其占巴西Web of Science收录科研产出的比例已超过三分之一。在国际开放获取大型期刊发表论文是巴西学界的主流实践之一，尤其在农学（Agriculture）与科学与技术（Science & Technologies）研究社群中表现突出；此外，将已发表于开放获取期刊的论文存入仓储库的行为也较为普遍。但开放数据相关实践仍处于萌芽阶段；研究结果显示，开放数据仓储库的存储与使用行为主要集中于科学与技术、寄生虫学（Parasitology）以及遗传学与遗传（Genetics & Heredity）领域。