Research at the University

The research produced at UNICAMP accounts for 6,1% of national academic production (2023) and is structured around 24 teaching and research units and 21 interdisciplinary research centers and nuclei, in addition to having 31 Large Thematic Research Centers, linked to Fapesp and CNPq programs, and dozens of state-of-the-art laboratories equipped for the development of advanced research in all areas of knowledge. UNICAMP has 678 research groups registered in the CNPq database, working in 1.864 lines of research, with 293 partner institutions, national and international.

The University has 1.771 teachers, 89 researchers, 1.114 collaborating and visiting researchers and 935 post-doctoral students, in addition to highly qualified technical staff. UNICAMP's teaching staff is made up of 99% of doctors, or higher degrees, and 215 teachers and researchers are CNPq productivity scholarship holders.

Funding for research produced at UNICAMP reached R$437 million in 2023, raised from Brazilian funding agencies and other institutions, public and private, in the country and abroad.

The University's intellectual production shows its consistency each year, reaching in 2023 the mark of 5.524 publications indexed in specialized refereed journals, 3.029 of which are open access.

In the period 2019-2023, UNICAMP produced 30.079 scientific works, 38,3% in international collaboration and 3,1% in collaboration with industry. This production generated more than 318 thousand citations, with an average of 10,6 citations per publication and an impact above the world average. Around 9,8% of UNICAMP publications are among the top 10% most cited worldwide and 26,6% were published in the top 10% international journals.

Below are the main institutional tools for managing and measuring research data at the University:

Research Yearbook

Comprehensive information for analyzing the performance of research produced at the University and positioning the institution in the national and international scenario.

Statistical Yearbook

Document prepared by AEPLAN that presents an overview of the physical and organizational structure of the institution, in addition to a set of indicators related to teaching, research and extension activities developed in the period.

FAEPEX reports

Annual documents that describe the activities financed by FAEPEX, reporting the sources and amounts of financial resources allocated to the Fund, and the types of support granted for each area and line.

UNICAMP Scientific and Intellectual Production Repository

Instrument for collecting, organizing, disseminating and preserving the results of research produced by professors, researchers, undergraduate students, graduate students and technical-administrative employees of the University.

UNICAMP Research Data Repository

REDU is the official tool for depositing, preserving, sharing, reusing and reproducing all research data generated at the University.

CNPq Research Groups

Researchers and students who organize themselves around one or more lines of research in an area of knowledge, with the aim of developing scientific research.