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The document highlights rising higher-education attainment and growth in international scientific output, alongside broader efforts to improve basic schooling and literacy. It then focuses on science communication, describing how platforms such as SciELO increase visibility and access to research from developing countries, while public and private institutions strengthen dissemination through portals, magazines, press releases, and science events.","ISSN 1824 – 2049 [http://jcom.sissa.it/](http://jcom.sissa.it/)  \nFocus  \nScience and communication in Brazil: evolution, globalization, and contingencies  \nYurij Castelfranchi  \nThe scientific institution in Brazil is marching to a good rhythm. Despite problems in funding (and in the very irregular distribution of such funds), universities and private research centers changed and grew over the last few years. In 1999, Brazil (whose external debt is over 50% of GDP), invested 0. 87% of GDP in Research & Development: a percentage comparable to that of several Mediterranean countries. The number of persons who obtain a Master or PhD degree in Brazil has more than doubled in the last ten years. Scientific productivity has grown in parallel, with the number of Brazilian papers published in those scientific journals included in the Science Citation Index increasing 4-fold between 1985 and 1999, and their percentage over the world-total doubling: it surpassed 1% and it is still increasing (to have a comparative idea, France produces 5% of indexed scientific papers, India 1.5%, and China 1.7%) .1 Both public universities and private education institutions have created over the last five years new campuses throughout the country and multiplied their formative offers: new PhD and specialization courses are born almost every month. In a similar way, in the basic education area, the efforts made by the country (which is penalized by very low levels of literacy, especially when compared to those of countries with similar GDPs) are quite marked. Today, more then 95% of Brazilian children go to school. Even if data, as is often in Brazil, show a wide gap in development as a result of the discouragement represented by social injustice and racism,2 there is no doubt that science is growing and that Brazilian researchers and research projects are receiving more and more international recognition. Communication, a fundamental part of the science system, has progressed accordingly: both internal scientific communication and public communication of science and technology are growing in Brazil ata good pace.3 The SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online),4 for example, makes available on-line a remarkable corpus of Latin-American scientific journals.“The results of scientific research”, SciELO’s organizers write, “are mainly communicated and validated through publication in scientific journals. This is valid for developed and developing countries. However, scientific journals from developing countries face several distribution and dissemination barriers, which limit the access and usage of locally generated scientific information. SciELO […] provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessibility to their scientific literature, contributing to overcome the phenomena known as ‘lost science’. In addition, the SciELO model comprises integrated procedures for the measurement of usage and impact of scientific journals”.  \nPublic communication of science is also intense and articulated both in private and public sectors.5 Many research institutions produce press-releases or even internet portals or magazines of popular science: the National Research Council of Brazil (CNPq) produces a news site;6 the Ministry of Environment has several scientific information or popularization services;7 the Ministry of Science and Technology funds a news agency8 and an on-line magazine9 and began to organize, this year, a national“science week”; the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC) produces a daily newspaper (Jornal da Ciência, 10 distributed on-line for free), a high level science magazine (Ciência e Cultura, 11 both printed and an integral, free version on-line), and a popular science magazine for teenagers and the general public (Ciência Hoje), which has also a version for children;12 whilst FAPESP, one of the biggest public research funding institutions in Brazil, 13 produces a remarkable publication: a science magazine ","cbCailtX0Xvg4rCt","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailtX0Xvg4rCt","pdf",80696,1,4,"English","en",105,"# Focus\n## Science growth and education in Brazil\n## Science communication and international visibility\n## Public science outreach and extension programs","[{\"question\":\"What major developments have occurred in Brazil’s research and education system?\",\"answer\":\"Brazil has increased investment in research and development, expanded graduate education, and grown scientific productivity. Universities and private centers have also created more campuses and research training programs.\"},{\"question\":\"How does SciELO contribute to science communication?\",\"answer\":\"SciELO provides online access and ensures universal visibility and accessibility for Latin-American journals. It helps overcome the problem of “lost science” and supports measurement of usage and impact.\"},{\"question\":\"What role do public outreach activities and extension programs play?\",\"answer\":\"Public communication includes press releases, online portals, magazines, and science events organized by multiple institutions. 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