Brazilian Graduate Programs Research Articles

Twenty years of the Open Access movement: A retrospective study on the relationship between publishing strategies and scientific capital of Brazilian researchers in biological science

Abstract In this study, we aim to investigate the publishing strategies adopted by the Brazilian scientific community and how they are related to the researchers’ scientific capital. The “research productivity” grant (PQ grant) is taken as an indicator of scientific capital: The greater the PQ grant a researcher receives, the greater is their scientific capital. Personal data from 6,993 researchers linked to at least one Brazilian graduate program in biological sciences were obtained through the Sucupira Platform, data on articles published from 2000 to 2019 were retrieved from the Lattes Platform, and the Directory of Open Access Journals was consulted to classify articles as Open Access (OA). Our main findings indicate that subscription-based journals are the most prevalent publishing strategy, but the proportion of OA publications is increasing over time, mainly with article processing charges (APC). We also observed that the lower the level of PQ grant, the higher the share of articles in OA journals. Finally, we observed a growing trend in the percentage of researchers with high and mid-high adherence to OA from all levels of PQ grant, but mainly with APC. Mapping the dynamics of publishing strategies can play an important step towards driving policies oriented to the promotion of OA.

Internationalization of the training and production of Brazilian Graduate Programs of Political Science

This article analyzes the internationalization strategies of the teaching careers of Brazilian political scientists. Internationalization will be measured in two dimensions: 1) publications and 2) academic training of the teachers. Are the central countries the main destinations of Brazilian political scientists? In the field of Brazilian political science, do the central programs monopolize internationalization or is it also accessible to more recent programs? The hypothesis tested is that internationalization would be linked to the central countries and that core programs would be largely over-represented. The study analyzed 360 researchers linked to political science programs. The hypothesis was only partially confirmed. It was concluded that the peripheral programs also have space in the internationalization of the academic training and in the publication of papers abroad. The main difference found between internationalization dynamics concerns the country of destination for academic training and for paper publication. Academic training is basically concentrated in central countries (US, England and France). Although it is absent in academic training Latin America has an important presence as a focus of the international publication of the researchers examined.

Shifting Away from Normative/Hegemonic Language Assessment in Graduate Programs in Brazil and Espousing a Social Justice Agenda: Insights from Assessment Practices with Indigenous and Deaf Students in Two Universities

Shifting Away from Normative/Hegemonic Language Assessment in Graduate Programs in Brazil and Espousing a Social Justice Agenda: Insights from Assessment Practices with Indigenous and Deaf Students in Two Universities

Formação para a inovação nas Ciências Biológicas: análise de disciplinas e percepção dos egressos

Abstract This study sought evidence that the training of masters and doctors in the field of Biological Sciences prepares them to work with innovation. It is a descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative-quantitative methodological approach. The subjects offered in the graduate programs of this broad field were analyzed, along with the responses of 5,186 graduates to a questionnaire about their professional training in Brazilian graduate programs. The results suggest that while there are initiatives and successful examples of innovation and entrepreneurship in the academic environment, these cases appear to be exceptions. Overall, the programs offered few subjects, activities, and initiatives to prepare students for working with innovation processes and environments.

Mapping the Asymmetries of Graduate Programs in Brazil: Modeling, Visualization and Reporting of Estimates

Mapping the Asymmetries of Graduate Programs in Brazil: Modeling, Visualization and Reporting of Estimates

The Internationalisation of Psychology in Brazil: an Analysis of Scientific Outputs, Collaboration Networks and Their Impacts

This article aims to analyse the process of internationalisation of scientific output in Brazilian psychology and its subfields and compare them with other countries from 2011 to 2020. Two other objectives were taken into consideration: to describe the collaboration networks formed by national psychology researchers and their influence on the impact of scientific output while analysing the relationships in the North–South and South-South axes and to reflect on the advance of the quality of the scientific output over time, considering the indicators of its scientific impact. We used SciVal, based on the Scopus database. The main result is that cooperation on the South-North axis was dominant compared to cooperation on the South-South and South-East axes. The paper also discusses the importance of public funding agencies and the growth of graduate programs in Brazil, enabling the increase in output and the internationalisation of national psychology. The final part addresses the limitations of the Scopus database and some guidelines for the future of the internationalisation of Brazilian psychology.

How International are the Brazilian Graduate Programs in Psychology?

How International are the Brazilian Graduate Programs in Psychology?

A internacionalização da pós-graduação no Brasil: a experiência do doutorado pleno e doutorado sanduíche no exterior

Abstract This paper systematically reviews two distinct types of PhD research grants in Brazil: Overseas PhD and PhD Exchange Research Grants. The research method employed is a historical analysis. The former enables students to pursue their entire PhD studies abroad, while the latter necessitates students to be enrolled in a Brazilian graduate program and spend a portion of their PhD course overseas for research purposes. The paper begins with a historical overview of graduate programs in Brazil and subsequently delves into a comprehensive examination of the two grant types. This examination includes a historical perspective on their development as well as an exploration of current discussions surrounding them. The paper concludes that the lack of data systematization and discourse on these research grants hinders the analysis of their impact on the field of national science.

Statistical training in Brazilian graduate programs: an analysis of the courses offered

Resumo A estatística é uma das bases da ciência e seu ensino em programas de pós-graduação tem influência direta na formação da próxima geração de pesquisadores. Este trabalho traz um panorama geral das disciplinas relacionadas à estatística na pós-graduação stricto sensu no Brasil, a partir da análise das ementas das 176.823 disciplinas, sendo 12.552 com conteúdos relacionados à estatística. Dentre os fatos encontrados temos que poucos programas possuem disciplinas obrigatórias relacionadas à estatística. Quanto maior o conceito da pós-graduação na Capes, maior a quantidade média de disciplinas relacionadas à estatística ofertadas. Entretanto, essa relação não está presente nas disciplinas obrigatórias. Com relação ao conteúdo das disciplinas, elas se dividem em dois grandes grupos. Um grupo com base teórica em probabilidade e estatística, outro com foco em aplicações e utilização de ferramentas. Existe um pequeno terceiro grupo de disciplinas, ofertadas na língua inglesa. Por fim, a oferta de disciplinas relacionadas a técnicas avançadas (Machine Learning) é, se comparada à oferta das disciplinas relacionadas à estatística, muito pequena e se concentra, principalmente, nos programas de Engenharia e Ciências Exatas e da Terra.

Scientific production in biodiversity: the gender gap continues in Brazilian universities.

Scientometrics enables us to comprehend the interests and trends in scientific knowledge production and dissemination. In this study, we evaluate the effects of gender, academic experience, location of residence, and graduate program score on the quantity of published articles, the number of citations and the H-index of researchers belonging to Brazilian graduate programs in Biodiversity. Variables related to the researchers were measured, and the relevance in explaining scientific production was examined using hierarchical models. In graduate programs, there were more men than females. The number of articles as first author and the H-index increase progressively through the researchers' career, while the number of citations increases at the beginning of their careers, stabilizing between 10 and 20 years, and increasing again after 30 years of career. We concluded that gender, academic experience, and graduate program score were the most important variables in explaining the scientific production of graduate programs in Biodiversity in Brazil.

Scientific Collaboration Network Views: A Brazilian Computer Science Graduate Programs Case

Scientific collaboration networks can present different views of researchers’ interactions. This work presents SCI-synergy, an online navigable artifact aiming to promote mechanisms and views of scientific collaboration networks. The artifact focuses on the researchers’ interaction in the co-authorship of publications considering intra- and interprogram relationships. SCI-synergy is developed upon the design science research paradigm using scientific publication data available on the large Digital Bibliography & Library Project (DBLP) repository. Official data from the Sucupira repository of six Brazilian graduate program members including Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), State University of São Paulo (USP), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), University of Brasília (UnB), and University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) is used. Data from these graduate programs illustrate the artifact usage regarding the scientific collaboration network of each program, how each researcher cooperates, and what relationship patterns exist in intra- and inter-programs views. We advocate that, even though it is necessary to consider data from each program’s history and current contextualization regarding politics, economics, and administration, the collaboration network views provided by SCI-synergy might help to understand collaboration network patterns.

Estudios longitudinales sobre el proceso de evaluación de los criterios periódicos de calificación y sus impactos en el establecimiento de nuevos parámetros 2020

This article presentes historical and conceptual conceptions about Scientific Journals since their appearance. Describes the role of the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Nivel Superior (CAPES) and its revanche in the develoment, consolidation and evaluation of graduate programs in Brazil. Emphasizes the changes that have taken place in the Qualis Journals criteria, in the attrbution of parameters and looks at the main impact over time. Regarding the methodological dynamics in progress, the collection of data and information was restricted to bibliographic and documentar survey, from the comparison of criteria and parameters in a longitudinal perspective. It is dedicated in a preamble way to point out that new Qualis trigger, such as the unique classification for each journal and classification by mother área, as well as the indexing regime in expressive databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. It appears that disagreements can be presente when the subject envolved leads to changes in criteria and parametes for Journals which diretly impacts the organic form of science; howerve, it is observed, from the analyzed documents, that for new áreas of Knowledge, the process must me revised, given the statement by Scientific institutions of the probable losses that may occur affecting the áreas in the main ones that make up the College of Social and Human Sciences.

Analysis of co-authorship networks among Brazilian graduate programs in computer science.

The growth and popularization of platforms on scientific production has been the subject of several studies, producing relevant analyses of co-authorship behavior among groups of researchers. Researchers and their scientific productions can be analysed as co-authorship social networks, so researchers are linked through common publications. In this context, co-authoring networks can be analysed to find patterns that can describe or characterize them. This work presents the analysis and characterization of co-authorship networks of academic Brazilian graduate programs in computer science. Data from Brazilian researchers were collected and modeled as co-authoring networks among the graduate programs that researchers take part in. Each network topology was analysed with complex network measurements and three proposed qualitative indices that evaluate the publication’s quality. In addition, the co-authorship networks of the computer science graduate programs were characterized in relation to the assessment received by CAPES, which attributes a qualitative grade to the graduate programs in Brazil. The results show the most relevant topological measurements for the program’s characterization and the evaluations received by the programs in different qualitative degrees, relating the main topological patterns of the co-authorship networks and the CAPES grades of the Brazilian graduate programs in computer science.

Metric indicators for the evaluation of graduate programs in Brazil: from Qualis to multi-criteria

Brazilian scientific production has been mostly developed (90%) by Brazilian universities, mainly graduate programs, which must be assessed and ranked by the Brazilian government for their maintenance. The Qualis system is used for this classification by valuing the scientific production of graduate programs, stratifying journals and assigning grades. Several Brazilian researchers affirm that the Qualis system is inaccurate and subjective because it is carried out by a group of researchers. This work aimed to propose methods to evaluate Brazilian scientific production in order to improve the assessment of graduate programs through multi-criteria methods in addition to Qualis. The application of different metrics presented results significantly different from Qualis, including the over valuation of journals with a low international impact factor. The proposed metrics considered: (i) web of science impact factor of the journals; (ii) Citations from articles; (iii) Citations of citations, i.e., a new metric; and (iv) H-Index for researchers. It was proposed the multi-criteria method, composed of the mentioned criteria, in addition to Qualis. For the sample of researchers, it was demonstrated that multi-criteria methods can assess scientific production more accurately. Therefore, they are more adequate to assess the Brazilian graduate programs, considering several internationally accepted criteria.

O ESTADO DO CONHECIMENTO SOBRE AS SALAS DE RECURSOS MULTIFUNCIONAIS: AS PRODUÇÕES ACADÊMICAS DOS PROGRAMAS DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO

This article aims to present the State of Knowledge of academic productions, stricto sensu graduate programs in Brazil, which has as its object the Multifunctional Resource Rooms. For this survey, we sought the academic production in the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) and the casting was performed through categories related to the use and current situation of the resource rooms. It was evidenced that few works bring the resource rooms as a theme, and out of the analyzed works, most of them present the subject of teaching training.

Semiótica de Greimas na pesquisa brasileira em Design e Moda: triagem e mistura entre disciplinas

A Semiótica de linha francesa desenvolvida por A. J. Greimas e seus colaboradores tem como um de seus princípios colocar-se a serviço das outras ciências sociais e humanas. O objetivo deste trabalho é realizar um levantamento e entender como a arquitetura conceitual da teoria semiótica de Greimas é usada nas pesquisas das áreas de Design e Moda no Brasil. Nosso corpus de pesquisa são as teses e dissertações defendidas até o ano de 2019 em 25 programas de pós-graduação dessas áreas, filtradas segundo o uso ou menção de autores do campo da teoria semiótica francesa. O problema foi compreender se e como a Semiótica de Greimas apresenta-se em interdisciplinaridade com as pesquisas desenvolvidas nos programas de pós-graduação em Design e Moda brasileiros. De um universo total de 2.854 teses e dissertações disponíveis nos bancos de dados online, encontramos 90 trabalhos que fazem uso da Semiótica de Greimas. Partindo da oposição entre os modos do fazer científico por triagem ou por mistura, identificamos nos resultados localizados uma tipologia das relações entre disciplinas, que podem se dar tanto como operações de separação ou de comparação (lógicas de triagem), quanto como operações de combinação ou de indiferenciação (lógicas de mistura). No geral, encontramos uma quantidade maior de trabalhos pertencentes à lógica da mistura do que à lógica da triagem, o que evidencia a própria natureza interdisciplinar das áreas de Design, Moda e Semiótica.

SIMULATION IN NURSING: PRODUCTION OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GRADUATE COURSES IN BRAZIL FROM 2011 TO 2020

ABSTRACT Objective: to synthesize the production of knowledge on simulation in Nursing generated by the Nursing graduate programs in Brazil between January 2011 and February 2020. Method: a documentary research study, which adopted as primary source the official documents of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level personnel, conducted by means of an integrative literature review from October 2019 to February 2020, with quantitative analysis of the data. Results: initially, 68 studies were identified, 40 of them comprising the final sample. The following categories stood out: purpose of the studies; types of simulation; Health Care level; variables analyzed regarding the effectiveness of the simulation; themes addressed; comparison of the effectiveness of simulation with that of other teaching strategies, and weaknesses and potentialities of simulation. The scientific research of the Brazilian graduate courses prioritized the analysis of the effectiveness of simulation in the development of knowledge, satisfaction and confidence, in an off-site or virtual teaching environment, aimed both at hospital care and at primary care, mainly in Neonatology and Pediatrics, with the participants' anxiety as main weakness; and satisfaction, knowledge, critical thinking, safety, confidence and the ability to articulate theory and practice as potentialities. Conclusion: this study contributes to research, teaching and care in Nursing, for enabling the identification of the scientific production setting on simulation, which supports new research studies, with a focus on objectives and settings not yet explored. Simulation is indicated as an effective strategy for the development of cognitive, psychomotor and attitudinal skills in Nursing.

ENSINO, PESQUISA E EXTENSÃO UNIVERSITÁRIA SOBRE A OTICA DO DESIGN PARA INOVAÇÃO SOCIAL

O artigo apresenta o relatório da pesquisa: Ensino, pesquisa e extensão universitária sob a ótica do Design para inovação social, durante o período de seu desenvolvimento no ÉCOLAB/ÉSAD, Le Studium Loire Valley, Institute for Advanced Studies, em Orléans, França.

PROFESSORALIDADE: PERSPECTIVAS EM FABULAÇÃO

Este artigo apresenta um estudo sobre o termo professoralidade, parte do léxico de dois grupos baianos de pesquisa em Educação. Tal termo é investigado com a intenção de se compreender como o mesmo tem sido operado conceitualmente nos trabalhos produzidos nos programas de pós-graduação stricto sensu no Brasil. A revisão sistemática utiliza, como banco de dados, o Catálogo de Teses e Dissertações da CAPES, no espaço temporal de 2010 a 2019. O critério de inclusão do corpus do estudo são dissertações, Trabalhos Finais de Conclusão de Curso (TFCC) e teses de doutoramento que têm o descritor “professoralidade(s)” no título, resumo e/ou palavras-chave. Assim, são encontrados vinte e dois trabalhos: 12 dissertações, 6 TFCC e 4 teses. Com a revisão sistemática de literatura, são cartografadas as desconstruções presentes nas perspectivas de professoralidade fabuladas pelos diversos autores.

Contribuição da pós-graduação brasileira em Ciências Ambientais na implementação da Agenda 2030

Objetiva-se analisar, discutir e refletir sobre a contribuição da Pós-graduação brasileira na área de avaliação de Ciências Ambientais (CiAmb) da CAPES à sociedade, no processo de incorporação dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS). Para tanto, foram analisados trabalhos de conclusão de cursos (TCCs), dissertações e teses, de 13 PPGs com doutorados acadêmicos notas “7, 6 e 5”, dois com mestrados profissionais nota "5" e dois com mestrado profissional em rede nacional. Os dados, obtidos na Plataforma Sucupira, foram comparados com descritores dos 17 ODS e analisados por meio de um algoritmo computacional. Os resultados foram organizados conforme as dimensões dos ODS e por região. Em que pese a dimensão ambiental se sobressair às demais, verificou-se que os PPGs têm colocado esforços ao compromisso de atender à Agenda 2030, caracterizando a relevância e importância da Área de Ciências Ambientais na formação de talentos humanos que contribuam ao desenvolvimento sustentável do país.