On the Criteria for Receiving a Research Productivity Fellowship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development in Mathematics and Statistics

Abstract

ABSTRACT. The fellowship of research productivity (PQ) granted by the national council for scientific and technological development (CNPq), besides the financial support, renders a significant status among Brazilian researchers of all areas of knowledge. Consequently, both the profile and the criteria for holding a PQ fellowship become of interest to the entire Brazilian scientific community. In this paper, we model the decision criteria as a weighted sum of the scientific production and the supervisory experience of an applicant for PQ fellowship. The scientific production is measured as the number of publications grouped according to the QUALIS system provided by the Brazilian federal agency for the improvement of higher education (CAPES). The Lattes curricula of PQ fellows in the field of mathematics, along with the curricula of many non-PQ researchers of similar institutions, were used to estimate a criteria for receiving PQ fellowship in category 2. By allowing a certain tolerance, the model reproduced the decision criteria within acceptable bounds over a database composed of 320 curricula.

Avaliação da Produção Científica em Áreas da Medicina: um Estudo Comparativo

“…Regarding the geographic distribution of PQ, the present study pointed out a greater concentration of grants in the Southeastern and Southern region, facts that corroborates in studies involving other areas of knowledge 1,9,10,11,18,21 . In a previous study involving the 411 medicine researchers, it was also possible to see and expressive concentration of these professional in the Southeast (79%) and seven institutions responsible for 80% of the researchers in the country, highlighting USP (51%) and Unifesp (17%) 7 .…”

“…This supremacy can be justified by the greater number of undergrad and graduate courses in medicine in the southeastern and southern regions that, together, represent 62.5% of the total number of medicine schools in the country 24 . In general terms, we can observe the researchers' regional and institutional concentration, respectively in the Southeast and in the state of São Paulo, fact reproduced in many studies involving other areas 1,7,9,10,11,21 .…”

“…A recent study involving PQ in Mathematics reinforce the need to know the scientific production and human resource training for the candidate to be up to hold a PQ grant 10 .…”

“…This grant is given as an incentive to those researchers who have a PhD degree and important scientific production in their research fields, to value their work compared to their peers 9 . Therefore, the PQ grant holder profile has an important interest to the scientific comunity 10 .…”

“…In the last years various studies have analyzed the profile and the scientific production of the PQ grant holders of CNPq in many fields of knowledge 1,7,9,10,11 . In Medicine, some studies evaluated the profile of the scientific production of researchers in this area 8,[12][13][14][15][16] .…”