Produção científica da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia: 1979 a 2006

Abstract

In a survey carried out in 1969, research in the area of "biology and medical sciences" corresponded to one-third of all the ongoing projects and occupied the leading position with 926 projects. It was followed by agriculture (674 projects), social sciences (349 projects), technology (234 projects), earth sciences (190 projects) and chemistry (152 projects). However, concerning the financial aid granted for the development of these research projects, the portion allotted to the area of health was considerably more modest than was that allotted to the other areas. (1) According to the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (CNPq, National Council on Research and Development), after three decades, biological and health sciences still account for the greatest number of lines of research (21,371), corresponding to 30% of the lines of research pursued in all of the broad areas of knowledge.

Brazilian scientific production in science education

“…Previous papers have been shown that this increase in registered groups was not restricted to sciences education (Prado and Sayd 2004;Menezes 2006;Parreiras et al 2006;De Meis et al 2007;Hermes-lima et al 2007;Coutinho et al 2009). Furthermore, Barbosa et al (2009), points that the possible reasons for the evident increase in the number of registered groups, could be due to the changes in the registration system in CNPq, and also due to an increase in the participation of researchers in the groups.…”