Perfil dos pesquisadores com bolsa de produtividade em pesquisa do CNPq da área de saúde coletiva

Abstract

Based on information provided by the Lattes curriculum, this study analyzes the profile of researchers in public health with productivity grants from the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq). The analysis considered the researcher s undergraduate and graduate degrees, field of expertise, scientific output, and publications. The article discusses comparisons between different categories of researchers and data provided by the CNPq Research Group Directory. Most of the researchers (70%) received their undergraduate degrees either in health sciences, mainly medicine, or the humanities (18%), mainly sociology. 60% have Master s or PhDs in collective health, but some 20 to 30% of researchers, depending on the category, have no specific training in this particular field. Most are currently engaged in epidemiology. Their scientific work, as evidenced by bibliographic output, varies from 10.56 research products per year for level 2C PhD researchers to 6.60 products per year for level 1A researchers. For complete articles published in periodicals, the figures are 3.56 and 2.87, respectively. The output is mainly published in class A international periodicals as well as national periodicals, classes A and B. The periodicals with the greatest concentration of articles are Cadernos de Saúde Pública/Reports in Public Health and Revista de Saúde Pública/Journal of Public Health.

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 .…”

“…However, this fact has been changing in the last years, in areas such as Nursing 1 and Physiotherapy 20 , in which we observe the predominance of the female gender among the grant holders of PQ/CNPq, alongside with the history of feminization of jobs. It is important to mention the same tendency observed in two studies involving PQ in the field of Public Health: in the first study 155 resumes Lattes of researchers were analyzed in the three years of 2004-2006, we could observe the similarity between the male and female gender (1.03:1) 11 . However in the second study that analyzed the historical series of 2000-2012 we came to the conclusion that at the end of this period, there was already a predominance of the female gender (52%) 1 .…”

“…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 .…”

“…Another variable of the study refers to the predominance of PQ level 2, same fact observed in the study involving PQ of all the areas of Medicine 7,21 and in studies on the field of Nursing 1 , Dentistry 18 and Public Helath 11 . The insertion of researchers in science productivity is relatively new, but there is a greater effort (or pressure) to reach a higher level of excellence in the scientific production and training of human resources, demanded in category 1A 17 .…”

“…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] .…”