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Scientific production of the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) researchers in the field of Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology granted with a scientific productivity fellowship

2018; Elsevier BV; Volume: 126; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.oooo.2018.07.057

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Rodrigo Soares de Andrade, Daniella Reis Barbosa Martelli, Mário Sérgio Oliveira Swerts, Eduardo A. Oliveira, Hercílio Martelli Júnior,

Education and Public Policy

Federal government agencies, particularly, the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and the National Council for the Development of Science and Technology (CNPq) provide the majority of sponsored research funds for Brazilian scientists. The CNPq is mainly devoted to researcher funding, whereas the CAPES evaluates postgraduate courses and funds undergraduate and graduate fellowships. CNPq also provides a particular form of funding called scientific productivity fellowship, which classifies the researchers under 2 main categories: category 1 and 2, by decreasing order of value. Category 1 is subdivided into 4 levels: 1A, 1B, 1C, and 1D.1Arruda D Bezerra F Neris VA Toro PR Wainer J Brazilian computer science research: gender and regional distributions.Scientometrics. 2009; 79: 651-665Crossref Scopus (34) Google Scholar According to the Advisory Committee of the CNPq, the criteria for receiving a scientific productivity fellowship include scientific production, training of human resources, contribution to innovation, coordination and participation in research projects, and participation in editorial activities. Moreover, this Committee stated that considering the limited number of scholarships, the following criteria, among others, are used as classification parameters and apply to all categories/levels: (1) number of publications and impact factor of the journals, (2) number of national and international patents, (3) number of PhD students, (4) number of Master's students, and (6) the Hirsch Index (http://www.cnpq.br/web/guest/view//journal_content/56_INSTANCE_0oED/10157/49701). Recently, we demonstrated that Brazilian scientists have significantly contributed to the literature with publications in major periodicals in the areas of Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology.2de Andrade RS Martelli DRB de Almeida OP et al.Brazilian scientific production in Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology.Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol. 2018; 125: 179-181Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (9) Google Scholar Here, we describe the profiles and the scientific production of recipients of CNPq scientific productivity fellowship in Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology. Of the 217 fellows in Dentistry in December 2017 (http://www.cnpq.br/web/guest/bolsistas-vigentes), 34 describe Oral Medicine and/or Oral Pathology as their main areas of investigation. Using the publicly available Lattes curriculum in the Lattes Platform (http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/busca.do?metodo=apresentar), we constructed a database with information on each researcher in terms of institution, time since receiving the PhD degree, scientific production (number of published papers) and training of human resources (supervision of undergraduates scientific initiation student, Master's and PhD students, and postdoctoral fellows) Table I.Table IProfile of the researchers in Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology granted with a scientific productivity fellowship by the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).Number of researchersGrant level (n)Published articles (n)Training of human resources (n)SISMScPhDPostdoc341A1B1C1D2Career5,449Career48332624132341719Median160.26Median14.209.587.080.942013-20172,1182013-2017104767023Median62.29Median3.052.232.050.67SIS: Scientific Initiation Student, MSc: Master of Science, PhD: Doctor of Philosophy, PD: Postdoctoral fellow. Open table in a new tab SIS: Scientific Initiation Student, MSc: Master of Science, PhD: Doctor of Philosophy, PD: Postdoctoral fellow. For the analysis of scientific production, we considered all publications and counseling services over the researcher's career, defined as the period between the date of publication of the first scientific paper and December 2017. We also analyzed the publications and consultations over the past 5 years, considering the period between 2013 and 2017 (average duration of fellowship). The 34 researcher fellows, with predominance of males (n = 22; 64.7%), were distributed in 7 Brazilian states: São Paulo (n = 14; 41.17%), Minas Gerais (n = 8; 23.52%), Bahia (n = 3; 8.82%), Rio Grande do Norte (n = 3; 8.82%), Goiás (n = 2; 5.88%), Pernambuco (n = 2; 5.88%) and Rio Grande do Sul (n = 2; 5.88%). As for the home institution, researchers were spread over 15 different institutions in the country. However, 3 institutions are responsible for approximately 35.3% of the fellows: Faculdade de Odontologia da Universidade de São Paulo (FOUSP-SP) (n = 4; 11.76%), Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (FOP-UNICAMP) (n = 4; 11.76%), and Faculdade de Odontologia da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (FO-UFMG) (n = 4; 11.76%). The median time since receiving the PhD degree was 20.4 years (interquartile range [IQR] 12–44). Over their academic career, the 34 researchers published 5449 articles in scientific journals, with an average of 160.26 articles per researcher (range 67–323 articles). Of the 5449 articles, 3176 (58.28%) were indexed in the Web of Science (an average of 93.41 articles/researcher), and 3035 (55.67%) articles were indexed in the Scopus (an average of 89.23 articles/researcher). Over their career, the fellows counseled 483 undergraduate students in research (median 14.20; range 3–49), 326 master students (median 9.58; range 5–41), 241 PhD students (median 7.08; range 1–30), and 32 postdoctoral fellows (median 0.94; range 0–11). The median Hirsch Index of the Institute for Scientific Information (H-index ISI) of the fellows is 15.14. As expected, our findings show that fellows in Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology who are recipients of the CNPq scientific productivity scholarship are a group with significant scientific production, as also observed in other areas, such as Medicine and Pharmacy.3Oliveira E A Colosimo EA Martelli DR et al.Comparison of Brazilian researchers in clinical medicine: are criteria for ranking well-adjusted?.Scientometrics. 2011; 90: 429-443Google Scholar, 4Oliveira EA Peicots-Filho R Martelli DR et al.Is there a correlation between journal impact factor and researchers' performance? A study comprising the fields of clinical nephrology and neurosciences.Scientometrics. 2013; 97: 149-160Crossref Scopus (7) Google Scholar, 5Rodrigues LO Gouvea MM Marques FCC Mourao SC Overview of the scientific production in the Pharmacy area in Brazil: profile and productivity of researchers granted with fellowships by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.Scientometrics. 2017; 110: 1157-1171Crossref Scopus (5) Google Scholar The Minas Gerais State Research Foundation-FAPEMIG, Minas Gerais, Brazil and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq, Brazil.