Brazilian scientific production in science education

Coutinho, Renato Xavier; Dávila, Eliziane S.; Santos, Wendel Mombaque dos; Rocha, João Batista Teixeira da; Souza, Diogo O.; Folmer, Vanderlei; Puntel, Robson Luiz

doi:10.1007/s11192-012-0645-5

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“…The initial milestones of public investment in science were the establishment of agencies such as the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) in the fifties [ 1 ] which give financial support and offer incentives to Brazilian post-graduate programs. Owing to the expansion and decentralization policies of the nineties, there was a significant growth of academic research output in the country [ 2 ].…”

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Analysis of an Advisor–Advisee Relationship: An Exploratory Study of the Area of Exact and Earth Sciences in Brazil

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Scientific collaboration has been studied by researchers for decades. Several approaches have been adopted to address the question of how collaboration has evolved in terms of publication output, numbers of coauthors, and multidisciplinary trends. One particular type of collaboration that has received very little attention concerns advisor and advisee relationships. In this paper, we examine this relationship for the researchers who are involved in the area of Exact and Earth Sciences in Brazil and its eight subareas. These pairs are registered in the Lattes Platform that manages the individual curricula vitae of Brazilian researchers. The individual features of these academic researchers and their coauthoring relationships were investigated. We have found evidence that there exists positive correlation between time of advisor–advisee relationship with the advisee’s productivity. Additionally, there has been a gradual decline in advisor–advisee coauthoring over a number of years as measured by the Kulczynski index, which could be interpreted as decline of the dependence.

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Analysis of an Advisor–Advisee Relationship: An Exploratory Study of the Area of Exact and Earth Sciences in Brazil

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“…Another reason for the growth in INPA's scientific productivity is the presence of consolidated graduate programs that promote the contribution of and interactions with a greater number of students and post-doctoral fellows. Several studies have shown that there is a linear relationship between the number of graduate students and the number of scientific publications in Brazil (Guimarães 2004;De Meis et al 2007;Coutinho et al 2012). In fact, during the period studied, graduate students have been the main source of INPA first authorship in publications co-authored by permanent INPA staff researchers acting as thesis advisors.…”

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A critical assessment of INPA’s scientific cooperation based on publications from 2004 to 2014

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In the 1990s, scientific cooperation at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia -INPA), one of the oldest research institutions in Amazonia with the highest regional international cooperation, was dominated by research conducted by INPA's foreign partners. In this article, the evolution of this situation is evaluated, with the hypothesis that, as the internal and the external environments have changed over the past decade, this should be reflected in more symmetrical research cooperation. The analysis was based on a 2004 to 2014 Web of Science search of scientific production at INPA, from which 786 papers were recovered. The results indicated an increase in scientific production but without a corresponding increase in symmetrical cooperation. The level of symmetry varied according to the type of cooperation; it increased when Brazilian institutions were exclusively involved, although these papers tended to be published in journals with a low impact factor. However, the scientific relationships remained relatively asymmetrical when only foreign institutions were involved, although these papers were published in journals with high impact factors. Network analyses indicated that most international scientific cooperation was concentrated in just two INPA research departments: Biodiversity and Environmental Dynamics. In contrast, INPA's other two research departments, Technology & Innovation and Society, Environment & Health were peripheral, fragmented and benefited little from international cooperation. KEYWORDS: Amazon cooperation, co-authoring, international cooperation, research networks, scientific production Uma avaliação crítica da cooperação científica do INPA baseada em publicações entre 2004 e 2014 RESUMO Na década de 1990, a cooperação científica no Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Amazônica (INPA), uma das instituições de pesquisa mais antigas da Amazônia e que concentra grande parte da cooperação internacional regional, foi dominada por pesquisas realizadas pelos parceiros estrangeiros do INPA. Neste artigo, a evolução desta situação é avaliada, com a hipótese de que, à medida que os ambientes interno e externo mudaram ao longo da última década, isso deve refletir-se em uma cooperação cientifica mais simétrica. A análise baseou-se em um levantamento da produção científica do INPA na Web of Science de 2004 a 2014, em que foram recuperados 786 documentos. Os resultados indicaram um aumento na produção científica, mas sem um aumento correspondente na simetria da cooperação. O nível de simetria variou de acordo com o tipo de cooperação; aumentou quando estavam envolvidas exclusivamente instituições brasileiras, embora esses artigos tenham sido publicados em revistas com baixo fator de impacto. No entanto, as relações científicas permaneceram relativamente assimétricas quando apenas instituições estrangeiras estavam envolvidas, embora esses trabalhos tenham sido publicados em revistas com fatores de impacto mais altos.

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“…There was a significant increase in the number of papers published from 2014 which, in turn, reflects the increase in research groups in the area as shown by Coutinho et al . . According to the database of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), there was an increase in 113% in the number of research groups acting in Science Education from 2000 to 2010 and many of these groups focus in Biochemistry Education.…”

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“…These authors also showed that the graduate programs-both MSc and PhD programs-in the area increased 310% in the decade 2001-2010. The highest number of research groups and graduation programs in Science Education are located in São Paulo [22] which is in accordance to our results of the State contribution to JBE.…”

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Bibliometric analysis of the brazilian periodical journal of biochemistry education

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2019

Biochem Molecular Bio Educ

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The bibliometric analysis of the Brazilian periodical Journal of Biochemistry Education (JBE) covered the 117 articles published in 15 volumes in the period 2001–2017. Our results showed a positive trend in JBE publications with a significant increase in the number of articles since 2014, which can be related to the increase in research groups working in this area. The Southeast region of Brazil was the most productive one mainly due to the contribution of papers from institutions located in the State of São Paulo. Only four articles aimed the undergraduate courses (87.0%) showing methodological approaches to teach biochemistry (51.3%) and laboratory exercises (18.8%) among others. Most of the 332 authors contributed to a single article (87.7%) and just 3% of them published more than twice in JBE. The majority of the JBE articles had at least one citation in Google Scholar. There is also a great variety in the references used by the authors. Our analysis showed that JBE is an important peer reviewed publication aimed to improve teaching and learning of Biochemistry in Brazil. © 2019 International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 47(3):249–256, 2019.

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Brazilian scientific production in science education

Cited by 27 publications

References 20 publications

Analysis of an Advisor–Advisee Relationship: An Exploratory Study of the Area of Exact and Earth Sciences in Brazil

Analysis of an Advisor–Advisee Relationship: An Exploratory Study of the Area of Exact and Earth Sciences in Brazil

A critical assessment of INPA’s scientific cooperation based on publications from 2004 to 2014

Bibliometric analysis of the brazilian periodical journal of biochemistry education

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