Contribution of Oswaldo Paulo Forattini to public health: analysis of scientific production

Abstract

OBJECTIVE To analyze the main characteristics of the scientific production of Oswaldo Paulo Forattini, researcher and, for 40 years, editor of Revista de Saúde Pública.METHODS Descriptive study with bibliometric approach conducted in three steps. (1) identification of bibliographic records using the following search strategy: “Oswaldo Paulo Forattini” OR “Forattini OP” OR “Forattini” up information sources Google Scholar, Web of Science, and PubMed, in July 2016, which retrieved 867 records. (2) composition of research corpus, in which we included 351 bibliographic records of articles, books, book chapters, editorials, book reviews, informative notes and annual reports of the RSP and excluded 516 duplicates and acknowledgement notes, obituary notes, and nonretrievable citations. (3) data organization and analysis, in which we built databases for descriptive analysis and development of the MeSH coauthors and terms networks in VOSviewer software. For analysis of editorials, three reviewers read the full text of each editorial and categorized them according to subject, historical context and perspectives, relating them with historical milestones.RESULTS Forattini’s scientific production occurred from 1946 to 2009, most consisting of articles (n = 218; 62.1%), editorials (n = 43; 12.3%), and books (n = 13; 3.7%). The main subjects were Culicidae (36.8%), Triatominae (12.5%), and Epidemiology (10.0%). The coauthors of articles were his professors, colleagues of his generation, and graduate students. His editorials addressed critical reflections on the production of knowledge, research priorities, and factors that contributed to or hindered progress. The scope of subjects is broad, referring to socioeconomic and scientific development, public health issues in developed countries, or global health.CONCLUSIONS The analysis shows Forattini’s commitment with public health, research with vectors, training of researchers, and scientific communication.

Internacionalização e teoria dos custos de transação: análise de redes teóricas.

“…Pode-se observar que não há uma única instituição com grande volume de publicações sobre o tema pesquisado. As instituições Chinese University Hong Kong, Peking University e Vienna University Economics and Business (cluster roxo) possuem forte relação de publicação entre si, uma vez que a rede que as conecta é mais espessa que as demais redes, O tamanho dos círculos representa a quantidade de publicações realizadas em cada instituição, a coloração e espessura das linhas indicam a frequência de relacionamento entre instituições (REIS et al, 2016). A co-citação de autores é uma importante ferramenta de análise de pesquisas inter-relacionadas (ANGULO et al, 2018).…”

“…Foram realizados downloads dos resultados em dois formatos: texto sem formatação (txt) e separado por tabulações (win). O primeiro formato foi utilizado na análise dos dados realizada no software VOSviewer (ECT; WALTMAN, 2009) para a geração das redes e para a análise dos dados (REIS et al, 2016). Os dados em formato win foram utilizados para realizar as análises que ocorreram por meio da planilha eletrônica Microsoft Excel ® .…”

Coleção Entomológica de Referência: 85 anos de contribuições à saúde pública

“…Expanding the investigations started by Lane and Antunes, the research developed by Forattini between 1946 and 2009 is recorded in 218 scientific articles, 43 editorials and 14 books on Entomology, Public Health, Epidemiology, Molecular Epidemiology and thoughts on “The Being and Human Being” 14 . Below, it is summarized the chief contributions of the professors of the Entomology Laboratory who, in various ways, contributed to the worldwide recognition of CER as a center for the generation of scientific knowledge.…”

“…Forattini dedicated himself to studies on hematophagous insects from 1952 and they were intensified throughout his career as a professor and researcher at FSP. Details about the contributions of Forattini and his collaborators are detailed in Sallum et al 7 (2007), Reis et al 14 (2016) and Sallum 3 (2019). Briefly, the research led by Forattini and collaborators addresses ecological aspects within the field of epidemiology knowledge, what is defined as ecological epidemiology 3 .…”

“…The several dozen publications show both the originality and importance of the scientific work of Forattini and his collaborators. They addressed aspects of the ecology, epidemiology and systematics of culicidae from Brazil and, in particular, from the State of São Paulo 14 , 3 . It is worth mentioning the publication of Medical Culicidology in two volumes, with volume 1 being awarded by the Brazilian Chamber of Books in 1997 7 .…”