On the Criteria for Receiving a Research Productivity Fellowship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development in Mathematics and Statistics

Authors

  • Marcos Eduardo Valle Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) Departamento de Matemática Aplicada
  • Fábio Sakuray Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) Departamento de Ciências da Computação

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5540/tema.2014.015.03.0237

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

Marcos Eduardo Valle, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) Departamento de Matemática Aplicada

Marcos Eduardo Ribeiro do Valle Mesquita is currently at the Department of Mathematics of the State University of Londrina, Brazil. His research interests include computational intelligence, signal and image processing, mathematical morphology, lattice theory, and granular computing.

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2014-01-27

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Valle, M. E., & Sakuray, F. (2014). On the Criteria for Receiving a Research Productivity Fellowship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development in Mathematics and Statistics. Trends in Computational and Applied Mathematics, 15(3), 237–248. https://doi.org/10.5540/tema.2014.015.03.0237

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Vol. 15 No. 3 (2014)

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