Brazilian computer science research: Gender and regional distributions

• DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1944-0
• Publication Date: 2009-01-31T10:21:12Z
• Authors: Denis Arruda; Fábio Bezerra; Vânia Almeida Neris; Patricia Rocha De...; Jacques Wainera
• Keywords: 4. Education; 05 social sciences; 0509 other social sciences

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.