Academic production in higher education evaluation in Brazil

Higher education evaluation in Brazil has become an increasingly popular topic in education research, with a great number of researchers that try to understand it, because of the impact it has on the educational reforms. The objective of this research consist in the investigation of the academic production, with respect to the theme “Higher Education Evaluation in Brazil”, regarding characteristics such as authorship, institutional link, regionalism, impact factor, keywords and methodologies. It consists in a quantitative work, characterized as an exploratory and descriptive, which applies bibliometric methods. It was analyzed 222 articles, published in twelve Brazilian journals, ranked on Qualis A1 and A2 on Education. The results show a decrease on the publishing about the subject on recent years, and that the production keep up with the social and political changes on the country. In a more punctual tendency, it was observed an increase in co-autorship, a predominance in theoretic works and a high concentration of impact factor in a few authors.

Key words:
Biblimometry; Higher education evaluation; Institutional evaluation; Scientific production; Education. Teaching