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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060 EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 111, No. 1, 2016, pp. 67-74
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Bioline Code: oc16008
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 111, No. 1, 2016, pp. 67-74
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The dynamics of Brazilian protozoology over the past century
Elias, M. Carolina; Floeter-Winter, Lucile M. & Mena-Chalco, Jesus P.
Abstract
Brazilian scientists have been contributing to the protozoology field for more than 100 years with important
discoveries of new species such as Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania spp. In this work, we used a Brazilian thesis
database (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) covering the period from 1987-2011 to
identify researchers who contributed substantially to protozoology. We selected 248 advisors by filtering to obtain
researchers who supervised at least 10 theses. Based on a computational analysis of the thesis databases, we found
students who were supervised by these scientists. A computational procedure was developed to determine the advisors’
scientific ancestors using the Lattes Platform. These analyses provided a list of 1,997 researchers who were
inspected through Lattes CV examination and allowed the identification of the pioneers of Brazilian protozoology.
Moreover, we investigated the areas in which researchers who earned PhDs in protozoology are now working. We
found that 68.4% of them are still in protozoology, while 16.7% have migrated to other fields. We observed that
support for protozoology by national or international agencies is clearly correlated with the increase of scientists
in the field. Finally, we described the academic genealogy of Brazilian protozoology by formalising the “forest” of
Brazilian scientists involved in the study of protozoa and their vectors over the past century.
Keywords
protozoology; pioneers; academic genealogy; scientific mapping method
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