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Provedor de dados: | 42
País: | Brazil
Título: | 37 years of scientific activity in a Biochemistry Department in Brazil: patterns of growth and factors leading to increased productivity
Autores: | Gomes,Urubatã E.; Oliveira,Diogo L. de; Berti,Luciana C.; Amaral,Olavo; Souza,Diogo O.; Wofchuk,Susana T.
Data: | 2011-09-01
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Scientific productivity; Scientific growth profile; Biochemistry; UFRGS.
Resumo: | Scientific activity in Brazil has experienced an accelerated growth in the past decades, with an increase in productivity that greatly surpasses the international average. This growth has occurred mostly at the expense of centers of excellence in public universities, which account for the vast majority of the country's scientific output. The aim of this study was to evaluate the production of the Department of Biochemistry of a large public university in southern Brazil (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), as well as to identify internal and external policies that have influenced this growing production profile. We have performed a historical analysis of the scientific output of this Department of Biochemistry, which accounts for a considerable share of the indexed scientific production at this university. By focusing on the temporal course of its growth and drawing correlations between scientific output and important events in the history of the Department of Biochemistry and of the Brazilian science policies, we concluded that internal factors (as the creation of a postgraduation program, collaboration among researchers, experienced abroad researchers, qualification of faculty members) and external factors (as investments in the postgraduate education, the establishment of national scientific policies, such as financial stimuli for productive researchers and evaluation systems) influence scientific productivity in Brazil.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652011000300030
Editor: | Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Relação: | 10.1590/S0001-37652011005000011
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências  v.83 n.3 2011
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess