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Assessing the research and education quality of the top Brazilian Computer Science graduate programs

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Alberto H. F. Laender,

Carlos J. P. de Lucena,

José Carlos Maldonado,

Edmundo de Souza e Silva,

Nivio ZivianiAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 40, Issue 2

Pages 135 - 145

https://doi.org/10.1145/1383602.1383654

Published: 01 June 2008 Publication History

Abstract

This article reports about a study conducted to assess the quality of the top Brazilian Computer Science graduate programs. The study is based on data from DBLP and considers the scientific production of these programs in the triennial 2004--2006. A comparison of the scientific production of the Brazilian programs against that of reputable programs in North America and Europe indicates that the former compares well with these programs, both in terms of publication rate and number of graduates. The study also shows that the Brazilian programs follow international publication ratios of more than two conference papers per journal article. These results are a clear indication that the Computer Science field has reached maturity in Brazil.

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Assessing the research and education quality of the top Brazilian Computer Science graduate programs
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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June 2008

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