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Efficiency in the production of scientific knowledge of the Graduate Programs of Agronomy area in Brazil in the period 2013-2019
No full textA presente pesquisa teve como objetivo central analisar quais seriam os principais fatores que influenciaram a eficiência dos PPG da área de Agronomia do Brasil na produção de conhecimento científico, no período de 2013-2016 e 2017-2019. Para tanto, foi utilizado a Análise Envoltória de Dados (DEA) com retornos variáveis, orientação produto e restrição aos pesos. Os outputs foram definidos tendo como base a pontuação Qualis das publicações e o número de teses/dissertações do programa, enquanto como inputs utilizou-se o número de docentes permanentes e de bolsas de fomento. Além do mais, foi investigado se houve mudanças na produtividade total dos fatores dos PPG através do Índice de Malmquist, considerando os dois períodos em análise. De acordo com os resultados do modelo DEA, os PPG da área de Agronomia apresentaram um índice de eficiência médio de 63% no período de 2013-2016, sendo que oito programas foram eficientes. No segundo período, 2017-2019, houve uma redução no índice para 52,7%, tendo cinco programas atingindo a eficiência. Adicionalmente, verificou-se que a qualidade das publicações se mostrou extremamente importante para que os programas alcancem a eficiência, sendo que que os programas eficientes publicaram, majoritariamente, em periódicos A1 e A2, diferentemente dos programas ineficientes, que tinham a maior parte de suas publicações efetuadas nos estratos mais baixos. Em relação às características dos programas, observou-se que a maioria dos programas eficientes são da região Sudeste, recebem bolsas de fomento do Proex e possuem mais tempo de existência. Em relação aos resultados do Índice de Malmquist, tem-se que a maioria dos programas analisados, aproximadamente 71%, reduziram sua produtividade na produção de conhecimento científico entre os períodos de 2013-2016 e 2017-2019. Essa queda na produtividade teria ocorrido, principalmente, através de uma redução na eficiência técnica pura, revelando que os programas têm piorado a forma como estão alocando os seus recursos. Além disso, outras variáveis que apresentaram correlação significativa com a eficiência e a produtividade dos PPG da área de Agronomia, foram: porcentagem de docente permanente, docente permanente em pesquisa e docente colaborador, projetos de pesquisa, discentes matriculados e total de artigos. Por fim, no que se refere ao conceito da Capes, verificou-se a existência de uma relação entre a eficiência dos programas e o conceito atribuído pela instituição. Concluiu-se que a eficiência/ineficiência está relacionada com a forma com a qual os programas gerem os seus recursos. Assim, não seria a falta de recursos que estaria impedindo os programas ineficientes de prosperarem, mas a má administração desses recursos. Palavras-chave: Eficiência. Produção de conhecimento. Programas de Pós-Graduação. Agronomia.The main objective of this research was to analyze what would be the main factors that influenced the efficiency of graduate programs of the Agronomy area of Brazil in the production of scientific knowledge, in the period 2013-2016 and 2017-2019. For that, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was used with variable returns, product orientation and weight restriction. The outputs were defined based on the Qualis score of the publications and the number of theses/dissertations of the program, while the number of permanent professors and scholarships was used as inputs. Furthermore, it was investigated whether there were changes in the total productivity of the factors of graduate programs through the Malmquist Index, considering the two periods under analysis. According to the results of the DEA model, the graduate programas of the Agronomy area had an average efficiency rate of 63% in the period 2013-2016, with eight programs being efficient. In the second period, 2017-2019, there was a reduction in the index to 52,7%, with five programs reaching efficiency. Additionally, it was found that the quality of publications proved to be extremely important for programs to achieve efficiency, and efficient programs published mostly in A1 and A2 journals, unlike inefficient programs, which had most of their publications made in the lower strata. Regarding the characteristics of the programs, it was observed that most efficient programs are from the Southeast region, receive funding from Proex and have been operating for longer. Regarding the results of the Malmquist Index, most of the analyzed programs, approximately 71%, reduced their productivity in the production of scientific knowledge between the periods of 2013-2016 and 2017-2019. This drop in productivity would have ocurred mainly through a reduction in pure technical efficiency, revealing that the programs have worsened the way they are allocating their inputs resources. Furthermore, other variables that showed a significant correlation with the efficiency and productivity of programas of Agronomy area were: percentage of permanent professor, permanent professor in research and collaborating professor, research projects, enrolled students and total articles. Finally, with regard to the Capes concept, it was verified the existence of a relationship between the efficiency of the programs and the concept attributed by the institution. It was concluded that efficiency/inefficiency is related to the way in whichthe programs manage their resources. Thus, it would not be the lack of resources that would be preventing inefficient programs from thriving, but the mismanagement of these resources. Keywords: Efficiency. Knowledge production. Graduate Programs. Agronomy.CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superio
Anthony Leeds: forgetting and memory
No full textUniversité de Lille. Faculté des Sciences Economiques et Sociales. Lille, França.Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Casa de Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Casa de Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.O texto acopla o testemunho em forma de artigo de Licia do Prado Valladares − uma das principais estudiosas da questão urbana e das favelas no Brasil – sobre a importância da obra de Anthony Leeds, não obstante seu esquecimento pelas novas gerações de pesquisadores, depoimento dado por ocasião da celebração da constituição do Fundo Anthony Leeds, sob a guarda da Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz; e a nota técnica elaborada por Aline Lopes de Lacerda e Ana Luce Girão sobre o plano geral do arquivo e seu processo de constituição, acompanhada de fotografias, que, de acordo com as organizadoras do acervo, traduzem a riqueza de sua abordagem ao atribuir aos moradores, com os quais interagia em suas pesquisas, a condição de sujeitos ativos na coprodução da favela e da cidade.This section presents two texts. First is the article by Licia do Prado Valladares – one of the leading scholars on the urban issue and favelas in Brazil – testifying to the importance of Anthony Leeds’s work, despite its forgetting by new generations of researchers. This testimony was given at the event celebrating the creation of the Anthony Leeds Archive under the safeguarding of Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz. Second is the technical note produced by Aline Lopes de Lacerda and Ana Luce Girão on the general plan of the archive and how it was assembled, accompanied by photographs that, according to the organizers of the collection, translation the richness of his approach in taking the residents with whom he interacted in his research as active subjects in the coproduction of the favela and the city
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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