Research at the University

The research produced at UNICAMP accounts for 7% of the national academic output and is structured around 24 teaching, research, and extension units and 23 interdisciplinary research centers and nuclei, in addition to 32 large thematic research centers and 4 large multi-user equipment centers, linked to programs of FAPESP, CNPq, and Embrapii, and dozens of state-of-the-art laboratories equipped for the development of advanced research in all areas of knowledge. UNICAMP has 690 research groups registered in the CNPq database, working in 1.863 research lines, with 363 partner institutions, both national and international.

The University has 1.802 teachers, 90 researchers, 1.120 collaborating and visiting researchers and 1.328 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 146 teachers and researchers are CNPq productivity scholarship holders.

Funding for research produced at UNICAMP reached R$664 million in 2024, 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 2024 the mark of 5.524 publications indexed in specialized refereed journals, 2.554 of which are open access.

In the period 2019-2024, UNICAMP published 36.074 scientific papers, 39,1% of which were in international collaboration and 3,1% in collaboration with industry. This production generated more than 441 thousand citations, with an average of 12,2 citations per publication and an impact above the world average. Approximately 9,9% of UNICAMP publications are among the top 10% most cited worldwide and 27% were published in the top 10% international journals.

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

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

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.

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.

An instrument for organizing, disseminating, and preserving the results of research produced by faculty, researchers, students, and staff of the University.

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

A scientometric analysis of female participation is essential for equity.
(2019-2023)

The report seeks to diagnose the reasons that positioned Unicamp as one of the ten Brazilian institutions, which published more than a thousand scientific articles in 2021, with the highest rate of reduction in scientific production.