title: Hirsch's index: a case study conducted atthe Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo.
abstract: An analysis of scientific bibliographic productivity using the Hirsch h-index, information from the Institute of Scientific Information database and the Curriculum Lattes (CNPq, Brazil) was performed at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo (FFCLRP-USP) that has four departments in natural, biological and social sciences. Bibliometric evaluations of undergraduate programs showed a better performance of the departments of Chemistry (P < 0.001) and Biology (P < 0.001) when compared to the departments of Physics and Mathematics and Psychology and Education. We also analyzed the scientific output of the six graduate programs of FFCLRP: Psychology, Psychobiology, Chemistry, Physics Applied to Medicine and Biology, Comparative Biology, and Entomology. The graduate program in Psychology presented a lower h-index (P < 0.001) and had fewer papers indexed by the ISI web of science (P < 0.001) when compared to the other graduate programs. The poorer performance of the Psychology program may be associated with the limited coverage by the Thompson Institute of Scientific Information database.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psicologia e Educação, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil. nelsonta@usp.br
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Torro-Alves
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Herculano
authors.forename: C A S
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Terçariol
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kinouchi Filho
authors.forename: C F O
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Graeff
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D001938:Brazil; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D004500:Education, Graduate; D004526:Efficiency; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014495:Universities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data