Scientific publication indices at FEUP and mechanical engineering departments in Portugal

This paper undertakes an examination of bibliometric indicators by the faculty members affiliated in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (FEUP) and the other mechanical departments from Portuguese universities. Evaluation of the performance across both realms of associate and full professors is conducted through an assessment of individuals’ publication output and their impact within the scientific community. The teaching staff of FEUP includes engineering departments: mechanical; chemical; civil; informatics; metallurgical and materials; electrical and computer; industrial engineering and management. Outside the faculty, the mechanical engineering departments from University of Coimbra (UC) and University of Lisbon (IST-UL) where considered. The citation profiles (CP) pertaining to the professors are publicly accessible and were retrieved from the Scopus database as of April 2024. The methodology consists in processing and analysing Scopus datasheets recurring to bibliometric indices. The Canberra distance was one employed metric to qualify disparities between datasets. The results were compared through two approaches: i) presented in two-dimensional normalized g