Produção científica da enfermagem brasileira: a busca pelo impacto internacional

Abstract

Science can be considered as a world of ideas in constant movement -the knowledge-production process -and aims to discover the unity in the different facets of human beings' experience in their environment.Technology, in turn, reflects and shapes the value system. Being a powerful force in the development of civilization, it expands our abilities to change the world and has its own characteristics in each culture (1) .Technology has tightened its relation with science, which makes it difficult to distinguish one from the other in certain areas. As technology affects the social and cultural system more directly than scientific research, the immediate implications of its successes and failures directly influence human activity (2) .Thus, scientific development has become a crucial factor for social well-being, to the extent that, today, the distinction between rich and poor is based on the capacity to create scientific knowledge or not.Without adequate higher education institutions in science, technology and research, involving a critical mass of experienced scientists, no country whatsoever can guarantee any actual development (3) .The explosive knowledge advance is marginalizing people who do not have a combination of research infrastructure, high-quality human resource training and universal scientific education at their disposal. The analysis of the Brazilian situation demonstrates the need to expand the bases of academic research and technological innovation and highlights the urgency of changes in the basic, secondary and higher education system, moving from an informative to a formative system, as a way of preparing persons for the labor market, which highly depends on continuous learning (1) .Knowledge production in Brazil has always been connected with the growth in graduate programs (4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9) , which are the country's main way of consolidating its scientific base and training human resources that are prepared to solve regional and national problems. One important goal of the education system is to enable researchers to reach this kind of objectives. These knowledge producers should master state-of-the-art knowledge in their activity area, be able to give rise to coherent and updated questions and master methodological procedures to test them. When they structure autochthonous research lines, they become multipliers in the formation of new researchers. Their production must be endorsed by external referees from the national and international context (10) .In a recent publication by Science, which considered scientific production with international impact between 1992 and 2001, Brazil occupied the 19th place in terms of impact factor of publications indexed in the Institute for Scientific Information -ISI (11) .However, Brazil's technological innovation capacity needs to expand to be able to attend not only the population's immediate needs through appropriate technology, but also to produce goods and services that stimulate economic development (1) .The product and process of scientific activity d...

Tendências recentes da produção em história da enfermagem no Brasil

“…É possível notar um deficit importante de publicações em revistas com classificação A1, demonstrando dificuldade em internacionalizar a produção científica da área, o que se soma à ausência de periódicos de enfermagem brasileiros que tenham essa classificação, bem como à dificuldade de os autores publicarem em revistas internacionais, contribuindo para baixa visibilidade internacional da enfermagem brasileira no que diz respeito a sua produção científica (Marziale, 2005).…”

O caminho inovador e empreendedor da Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem e a adoção de política de internacionalização

“…The Latin American Journal of Nursing (RLAE) was submitted to an assessment process and included in Acknowledging technological change as an important trigger of opportunities which, in turn, leads to political, structural, organizational and process changes, RLAE used its five-year experience in SciELO (through performance and quality goals) (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14) to live up to its mission of being a scientific dissemination instrument for Nursing in Latin America. As a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization, the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing had the task of developing a dissemination mechanism for research results of international range, in line with the commitment it assumed before the WHO to contribute to the development of nursing research.…”

Uso do ultra-som para guiar a punção venosa periférica em crianças: significado para a enfermeira

“…Many innovations occur at each second; leading to a more practical lifestyle and to an improvement in the quality of what is being innovated (1) .…”

“…In Brazil, the capacity of technological innovation must be expanded to meet not only the immediate needs of the population with appropriate technologies, but also to produce goods and services that trigger economic development (1) .…”