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Publication date: 1 June 2005

Jacqueline Leta

The present study aims to overview Brazilian human resources and scientific output in astronomy, immunology and oceanography during the last decade.

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Purpose

The present study aims to overview Brazilian human resources and scientific output in astronomy, immunology and oceanography during the last decade.

Design/methodology/approach

Data on human resources and on scientific output were obtained from the Brazilian database, the Directory of Research Groups. Scientific outputs were also analysed from a set of journals catalogued by the Institute for Scientific Information: the 20 journals with the largest number of articles in 2003.

Findings

Compared with the other two fields, the number of Brazilian researchers in astronomy has not grown from 1997‐2002, but they are the most qualified and more than 90 per cent of them have a PhD degree. Most astronomy publications are in international journals and they are well cited. The most cited astronomy papers are on international topics, but this is not true for the oceanography papers.

Research limitations/implications

These data are derived from a particular set of publications and should be interpreted as trends rather than as definitive.

Originality/value

This study, which covers three fields with different structures and traditions, provides a snapshot of some features of the whole of Brazilian science, and will provide evidence for new science policies.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 57 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 June 2005

Grant Lewison

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 57 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 2 April 2019

Ricardo Antônio Câmara, Emerson Antonio Maccari and Renato Ribeiro Nogueira Ferraz

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contribution of a project management approach to develop a tool to support the management of Brazilian stricto sensu graduate…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contribution of a project management approach to develop a tool to support the management of Brazilian stricto sensu graduate programs (SS-GP). The Adaptive approach was chosen by applying the Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) method.

Design/methodology/approach

The study corresponds to the concept of applied research. The qualitative approach was used. The research strategy was the action research, where participants cooperate to understand their environment, identify problems and seek a solution, simultaneously producing and using the knowledge produced.

Findings

The results showed one possible way to apply a contingency project management approach to develop the tool. In addition, indicated that its application facilitated the project work, especially when finding a solution for the project’s development and when dealing with the changes inherent to the uncertainties about the problem.

Research limitations/implications

The lack of more updated information and the limitation of time and resources led to the reduction of the environment scope and of the number of functionalities developed.

Practical implications

To contribute to the generation of knowledge and expertise to support the management of SS-GP in activities such as providing information to the CAPES evaluation system, academic production analysis, collaborative researcher network analysis and post-graduation program monitoring and evaluation.

Originality/value

To fill a gap pointed out by several studies, that it is not possible to automatically generate input lists to be processed by ScriptSucupira tool, based on filtered criteria, comprising the entire universe of the Brazilian SS-PG. The creators of ScriptSucupira also declared to ignore the existence of an artifact similar to that.

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