Estudo de correlação do nível em língua inglesa dos pesquisadores em Química com suas publicações em periódicos

Abstract

The growth of scientific publications over the years is undeniable and obstacles may arise in the face of researchers who are not native or fluent in the English language. English is currently the language most used by periodicals and journals worldwide for the majority of scientific publications. The objective of this work is to analyse the curriculum vitae of Brazilian researchers active in stricto sensu post-graduate chemistry programs as regards their self assessments in the skills of speaking, reading, listening and writing in the English language. These skills are qualified using the criteria of good, reasonable or poor, and compared to their publications in that language. For this, data was extracted, using the Curriculum Lattes platform, the information that researchers present about their scientific achievements. Overall, 24 post-graduate programs with grade 4, present in the 5 Brazilian regions, and 10 programs with grade 7, 6 in the Southeast and 4 in the South, were selected, with a total of 337 selected researchers, 60% of whom were men. Most researchers consider themselves to have a good command of the English language in the four skills mentioned, with the best assessment for reading, 87% for the grade 4 group and 97% for the grade 7 group, and listening comprehension second, 62% and 80%, respectively. Researchers were characterized as fluent and non-fluent based on the best assignments for reading and writing and it was noticed that full articles published and articles in English were published, mostly, by those who read and write best. Consequently, these same researchers had the highest averages in relation to articles published in the Web of Science (WoS), citations and h-index. This ensures that Brazilian researchers in Chemistry are proficient in English to produce theirr articles and publish them in that language.