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Brazilian computer science research: Gender and regional distributions

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This paper analysis the distribution of some characteristics of computer scientists in Brazil according to regions and gender. Computer scientist is defined as the faculty of a graduate level computer science department. Under this definition, there were 886 computer scientists in Brazil in November 2006.

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  1. Institute of Computing, IC - UNICAMP, Av. Albert Einstein, 1251, 13084-971, P.O. Box 6176, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Denis Arruda, Fábio Bezerra, Vânia Almeida Neris & Jacques Wainera

  2. College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, FEEC - Unicamp, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Patricia Rocha De Toro

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Arruda, D., Bezerra, F., Neris, V.A. et al. Brazilian computer science research: Gender and regional distributions. Scientometrics 79, 651–665 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-1944-0

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