Open AccessOn the Criteria for Receiving a Research Productivity Fellowship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development in Mathematics and Statistics
Author(s) -
Marcos Eduardo Valle,
Fábio Sakuray
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
tema
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2179-8451
pISSN - 1677-1966
DOI - 10.5540/tema.2014.015.03.0237
Subject(s) - productivity , curriculum , agency (philosophy) , rank (graph theory) , value (mathematics) , production (economics) , mathematics , sociology , statistics , pedagogy , social science , economics , economic growth , combinatorics , macroeconomics
The fellowship of research productivity (PQ) granted by the national council for scientific and technological development (CNPq), besides the financial support, renders a significant status among Brazilian researchers of all areas of knowledge. Consequently, both the profile and the criteria for holding a PQ fellowship become of interest to the entire Brazilian scientific community. In this paper, we model the decision criteria as a weighted sum of the scientific production and the supervisory experience of an applicant for PQ fellowship. The scientific production is measured as the number of publications grouped according to the QUALIS system provided by the Brazilian federal agency for the improvement of higher education (CAPES). The Lattes curricula of the successful applicants for the PQ fellowship in the field of mathematics and statistics, along with the curricula of many non-PQ fellows of similar institutions, were used to estimate the criteria adopted in the last call for PQ fellowship in category 2. By allowing a certain tolerance, the model reproduced the decision criteria within acceptable bounds using the previous and the current QUALIS systems over a database composed of 234 curricula. As a consequence, the model may help to decide whether a researcher applicant is worthy to receive a PQ fellowship. Furthermore, it confirmed the recognized value of publications in journals with an elevated rank in the QUALIS system.