Profile and scientific production of Brazilian researchers in oral pathology

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the profile and scientific production of researchers in oral pathology who received grants in the area of Dentistry from the Brazilian National Research and Development Council. MATERIAL AND METHOD : The standardized online curriculum vitae (Curriculum Lattes) of 34 researchers in oral pathology who received grants in the years 2008-2010 were analyzed. The variables were: gender, affiliation, time from completion of the PhD program, scientific production, and supervision of undergraduate students and Master's and PhD programs. RESULT: The States of São Paulo (52.94%) and Minas Gerais (26.47%) were responsible for 79.41% of the researchers. Regarding affiliation, three institutions accounted for approximately 44.11% of the researchers: UNICAMP (17.64%); USP (14.70%); and UFMG (11.76%). The researchers published a total of 906 full-text articles, with a median of 26.64 articles per researcher in the triennium and 8.88 articles per year. It was found that of 906 articles published, 366 (40.39%) were published in strata A (qualis-CAPES). Oral pathology researchers supervised 437 scientific initiation and post-graduate students. Of these, 138 (31.57%) were scientific initiation, 169 (38.67%) were Master and 130 (29.74%) were PhD students. CONCLUSION: An important scientific production of oral pathology researchers in the 2008-2010 triennium was observed. By knowing the profile of researchers in oral pathology, more effective strategies for encouraging scientific production and demanding resources to finance research projects can be defined.

Avaliação da produção científica, patentes e formação de recursos humanos da Enfermagem Brasileira

“…However, the findings of this study that indicate that the majority (92.8%) of nursing PQ researchers are female are in contrast with the results of other studies that found a male predominance among PQ/CNPq researchers of other fields of knowledge, for instance, those which found 72.7% of male PQ researchers in cardiology (9) , 68% in medicine (10) , 70.6% in oral pathology (11) , and 74% in neuroscience (12) .…”

“…But this is not a reality only for nursing. Studies on other fields of knowledge also show this concentration in São Paulo and in the Southeast region (9)(10)(11)(12) . It should be noted that the spatial concentration of scientific production is not a Brazilian peculiarity, instead, it has been a growing tendency in the contemporary world.…”

Scientific production indicators and researchers training in the Brazilian Collective Health

“…Feminization is also notable in the body of Doctorate and Master's Degree students of the courses of this field of knowledge (17) . However, this predominance of women in the Pq universe of Collective Health contrasts with the results of other studies that show a greater presence of men among Pq professors in other areas of knowledge (18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23) . CNPq data indicate that in 2002 there were 0.84 women registered in the Directory of Research Groups for each man, and that ratio decreased greatly in the grant of productivity scholarship.…”

“…The productivity differentials related to professor training are consistent with studies that suggest a positive relationship between Graduate professor training and scientific productivity (36) . The productivity differentials related to the institutional affiliation of the professor revealed in this study reinforce the spatial and institutional concentration of Brazilian scientific production, an issue that is widely highlighted in other studies (18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23) . Studies point to two sets of factors that contribute to this heterogeneity/differentials: The unobservable factors related to the ability and motivation of the scientist to produce and the observable factors related to gender, origin, training and other institutional conditions (34,38) .…”

“…In relation to the concentration of Collective Health Pq/CNPq professors in the Southeast region (70.9%), it is important to point out that several studies whose universe are Pq/CNPq professors of other branches of knowledge point to this same reality (18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23) . The main reasons for the concentration of Pq professors in the Southeastern region are the Graduate concentration of this area in this region of the country (10,16) , the infrastructure available and the large research centers that exist in the academic institutions of this region which make them more attractive (12,18,(22)(23) , the existence of a lower number of professors in the institutions located in the regions of lower productivity, which causes that professors of these institutions end up having bigger commitments in the undergraduate courses, diminishing the time available to invest in research (23) , and finally, the existence of a Graduate concentration in all areas of knowledge in the Southeast region of the country (25) . The fact that more than half (64.3%) of the Collective Health Pq/CNPq professors came from six institutions in the country (FIOCRUZ, USP, UFBA, UFMG, UERJ and UNIFESP) reveals another type of concentration: Institutional concentration.…”