Scientific Production in Computer Science: A comparative study between Brazil and other countries Jacques Wainer 1* Eduardo C. Xavier 1 F´abioBezerra 1,2 1 Instituto de Computa¸ c˜ao - UNICAMP Caixa Postal 6176 13084-971 – Campinas, SP, Brazil 2 Centro de Ciˆ encias Exatas e Tecnologia – UNAMA Av. Alcindo Cacela, 287 66060-902 – Bel´ em, PA, Brazil Abstract In this paper we present a study about scientific production in Computer Science in Brazil and several other countries, as measured by the number of articles in journals and conference proceedings indexed by ISI and by Scopus. We compare the Brazilian production from 2001 to 2005 with some Latin American, Latin European, BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China), and other relevant countries (South Korea, Australia and USA). We also classify and compare these countries according to the ratio of publications in journals and conferences (the ones indexed by the two services). The results show that Brazil has by far the largest production among Latin American coun- tries, has a production about one third of Spain’s, one fourth of Italy’s, and about the same as India and Russia. The growth in Brazilian publications during the period places the country in the mid-range group and the distribution of Brazilian production according to impact factor is similar to most countries. Key Words: Computer Science Scientific Production, Bibliometrics, Cross country com- parison. 1 Introduction There has been some research on the Brazilian scientific production. 1–3 There are also studies of Brazilian scientific production/productivity in specific areas such Psychiatry, 4, 5 Life Sciences 6 and * Corresponding author: wainer@ic.unicamp.br 1