Climatology and Climate Change: Evaluation of Bibliographic Production in the period from 2009 to 2019

Abstract

This work presents the results of an investigation carried out on bibliographic production, in the period from 2009 to 2019, in the thematic areas of climatology and climate change, available on the CAPES Journal Portal, a free access research base for members the Federated Academic Community (CAFe) and the National Research Network (RNP) of Brazil. The bibliographic production investigated is part of the Meteorology area, which in turn is contained in the Geosciences area of the large area of knowledge of Exact and Earth Sciences, defined by CNPq. Research was carried out on the indexing bases of journals (Science Direct-Elsevier, Scopus and SciELO) contained in the journals portal using the specific terms “climatology”, “climatology” and “Brazil”, “climate change” and “climate change” and “Brazil”, as well as the classification of journals that contain articles with these terms through the Brazilian journal classification system (Qualis CAPES). The results showed that 67% of the journals dedicated to the areas of Meteorology and Climatology that aggregate publications on the theme of Climate Change are in the stratum of excellence (A) of Qualis CAPES.

Keywords
climatology; climate change; bibliographic production