Formação acadêmica no exterior e internacionalização da produção da ciência política brasileira: causalidade, indução ou aleatoriedade?

Abstract

The internationalization of academic training is a central axis of the Brazilian government's science and technology development policy. Financing academic training abroad would increase the chances of establishing collaboration networks in international research projects and of publishing studies co-authored with foreign colleagues. Previous research show that an important portion of professors linked to Brazilian postgraduate programs in political science had access to such internationalization modalities in their training. They also demonstrate that the publication of papers in international journals has grown significantly in recent years. Using dependency and interdependence methods, this paper aims to verify whether there is any relationship between the internationalization of training and the publication of articles in international journals. It is also intended to measure whether the country of destination of the training is the same country of destination of the published articles. Such analyzes will increase our understanding about the inducing power of financing internationalized training in the publication standard of professors linked to Brazilian postgraduate programs in political science.