Avaliação exploratória de atuação bienal do Programa Integrado de Doenças Endêmicas do Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - PIDE/CNPq

Gonçalves, Aguinaldo; Albuquerque, R. H.; Lins, Magnolia de Carvalho; Neiva, Delio da Silva; Souza, Gilberto Ferreira de

doi:10.1590/s0036-46651988000200011

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“…The entry of scientists between 1978-1993 might be a consequence of the creation of the Integrated Program for Endemic Diseases (PIDE), which was the Funding Programme from the Brazilian Council for Science Development (CNPq) that operated between 1976-1986. This programme invested the equivalent of 12 million American dollars in groups working in approximately 200 projects in endemic diseases ( Gonçalves et al 1988 ). Due to its differentiated financial policy, which means an initiative to influence the development of a special area, the programme had a huge impact on attracting more groups to work in protozoology, and our data reinforce this importance.…”

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The dynamics of Brazilian protozoology over the past century

Elias

Flöeter-Winter

Mena‐Chalco

2016

Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz

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Brazilian scientists have been contributing to the protozoology field for more than 100 years with important discoveries of new species such asTrypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania spp. In this work, we used a Brazilian thesis database (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) covering the period from 1987-2011 to identify researchers who contributed substantially to protozoology. We selected 248 advisors by filtering to obtain researchers who supervised at least 10 theses. Based on a computational analysis of the thesis databases, we found students who were supervised by these scientists. A computational procedure was developed to determine the advisors’ scientific ancestors using the Lattes Platform. These analyses provided a list of 1,997 researchers who were inspected through Lattes CV examination and allowed the identification of the pioneers of Brazilian protozoology. Moreover, we investigated the areas in which researchers who earned PhDs in protozoology are now working. We found that 68.4% of them are still in protozoology, while 16.7% have migrated to other fields. We observed that support for protozoology by national or international agencies is clearly correlated with the increase of scientists in the field. Finally, we described the academic genealogy of Brazilian protozoology by formalising the “forest” of Brazilian scientists involved in the study of protozoa and their vectors over the past century.

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