Produtividade em pesquisa do CNPq: análise do perfil dos pesquisadores da Química

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 .…”

“…The PQ/CNPq grant is designated to promote the scientific and technological research and also to train the human resources for research in the country 17 . In this context, there are many studies that highlight the worry with the premise of PQ grant 1,7,9,18,19 . The average number of post-graduate students by PQ in the medical fields studied (adjusted to the doctoring time) were of 0.53 and 0.33 per year for masters and doctors, respectively.…”

“…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] .…”