Scientometric Analysis of Research Output from Brazil in Response to the Zika Crisis Using e-Lattes

Abstract

PurposeThis paper aims to test the use of e-Lattes to map the Brazilian scientific output in a recent research health subject: Zika Virus.Design/methodology/approachFrom a set of Lattes CVs of Zika researchers registered on the Lattes Platform, we used the e-Lattes to map the Brazilian scientific response to the Zika crisis.FindingsBrazilian science articulated quickly during the public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) due to the creation of mechanisms to streamline funding of scientific research.Research limitationsWe did not assess any dimension of research quality, including the scientific impact and societal value.Practical implicationse-Lattes can provide useful guidelines for different stakeholders in research groups from Lattes CVs of members.Originality/valueThe information included in Lattes CVs permits us to assess science from a broader perspective taking into account not only scientific research production but also the training of human resources and scientific collaboration.

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“…With the development of extractors, it was possible to use Lattes Database to draw a bigger picture of the Brazilian Innovation System. Examples are snapshots of the scientific production (Dias and Moita, 2018), scientific regional distribution (Sidone, Haddad and Mena-Chalco, 2016;, knowledge field particularities (Arruda et al, 2009;Hilário and Grácio, 2017;McManus and Neves, 2020), scientific collaboration and coauthorship networks (Fonseca, Fernandes and Fonseca, 2017;Mena-Chalco et al, 2014), gender inequality in scientific areas (Oliveira, Mello and Rigolin, 2020;Perlin et al, 2017;Santiago, Affonso and Dias, 2020), academic genealogy studies (Damaceno et al, and Mena-Chalco, 2018), and other scientometric and network analysis such as the research output in response to the Zika Crisis (Sampaio et al, 2020) and tuberculosis , development of methods to assess researcher quality-oriented to specific purposes (Duarte, Weber and Pacheco, 2018), trust analysis in cooperation in research (Adamatti and Castelfranchi, 2015) and predatory publishing (Perlin, Imasato and Borenstein, 2018).…”