Profile and scientific output analysis of physical therapy researchers with research productivity fellowship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development

Abstract

| Objective: To describe the profile and the scientific output of physical therapists researchers holding a research productivity fellowship (PQ) from the Brazilian National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico-CNPq). Method: This is a cross-sectional study, which has evaluated the Lattes Curriculum of all PQ physiotherapy researchers registered at CNPq holding a research productivity fellowship in the period of 2010. The variables analyzed were: gender, geographic and institutional distribution, duration since doctorate defense, research productivity fellowship level, scientific output until 2010 and the H index in Scopus® and ISI databases. Results: A total of 55 PQ from the CNPq were identified in the area of knowledge of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy, being 81.8% from the Southeast region of Brazil. They were predominantly female (61.8%), with research productivity fellowship level PQ2 (74.5%), and with average time since doctorate defense of 10.1 (±4.1) years. A total of 2.381 articles were published, with average of 42.5 (±18.9) articles/researcher. The average of articles published after doctorate defense was 39.40 (±18.9) articles/researchers with a mean output of 4.2 (±2.0) articles/year. We found 304 articles indexed in the Scopus ® database with 2.463 citations, and 222 articles indexed in the Web of Science with 1.805 citations. The articles were published in 481 journals, being 244 (50.7%) of them listed on JCR-web. The researchers presented a median 5 of the H index in the Scopus® database, and a median 3 in ISI. Conclusion: The scientific output of the researchers with research productivity fellowship in the field of physical therapy stands out in their indicators, since the figures are very promising for a relatively young area and as it can be observed by the amount of published articles and citations obtained by the national and international research community.

Avaliação da Produção Científica em Áreas da Medicina: um Estudo Comparativo

“…In one study in which the impact indicators were compared of two randomly selected populations of Physiotherapy and Comparative Biochemistry researchers, having one group coming from Latin America and the other from developed countries 28 . These numbers were similar to the ones found in the medical areas as well as in the study involving PQ in Public Health 11 -which covers professional in the medical areaand way above the index found in the study with Physiotherapy grant holders 20 (on Scopus database, the average observed was of 5.3; when evaluated on Web of Science database, average 3.0 was found). However, H-index has some limitation to favor the researchers with long careers, as well as the ones who work in areas with high frequency of quotes 29 .…”

“…Analyzing the researchers' profile, we noticed the predominance of male gender involving other areas, such as Chemistry9and Dentistry 18 . 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 .…”

“…Other important piece of information found was the average of the articles per researcher throughout their academic 296 1,18,19,20 .…”

“…This information is important in the means that it can contribute to the decisions of the promotion agencies, responsible to elect candidates to academic position (as PQ scholarship holders), the scientific production and the development of the researcher individualy 20 . A recent study involving PQ in Mathematics reinforce the need to know the scientific production and human resource training for the candidate to be up to hold a PQ grant 10 .…”

Produção científica dos pesquisadores da área de pediatria no CNPq

“…É importante destacar que este aumento também foi encontrado nos estudos que avaliam outra área 16 . O estudo aponta um aumento das publicações em perió dicos indexados, tanto nacionais quanto internacionais.…”