Departamento de Planejamento, Instituto de Medicina Social, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Rev Saude Publica. 2010 Jun;44(3):394-8. doi: 10.1590/s0034-89102010005000008. Epub 2010 May 7.
To evaluate the differences in the patterns of Brazilian scientific production, published in journals that concentrate the largest production from Brazilian postgraduate programs in the area of collective health.
Based on the distinction between paradigmatic and non-paradigmatic science proposed by Kuhn, the publication of articles in the main collective health journals, related to the respective sub-areas and number of authors per article, was evaluated in the three-year period between 2004 and 2006. Data were collected from the LILACS database and independently categorized by authors into the traditional sub-areas of collective health.
Multiple-authored articles were much more frequent among those categorized into the sub-area of epidemiology, whereas single-authored articles were more frequent in the areas of social sciences and humanities in health. In addition, there was a difference in the frequency of publication of these types of articles in various journals, with the total number of articles on epidemiology being higher than the sum of all articles from the other two sub-areas.
The different patterns of authorship found have important implications for the processes that evaluate programs and researchers. This cannot be dismissed, otherwise the long-term sustainability of the multidisciplinary profile, which has characterized collective health in Brazil throughout three decades, will be threatened.
评估在集中发表巴西研究生集体卫生领域最大产量的期刊上发表的巴西科学研究模式的差异。
基于库恩提出的规范和非规范科学之间的区别，在 2004 年至 2006 年的三年期间，评估了与各自子领域和每篇文章作者数量相关的主要集体卫生期刊上发表的文章。数据来自 LILACS 数据库，并由作者独立分类为集体卫生的传统子领域。
在归类为流行病学领域的文章中，多作者文章更为常见，而在社会科学和人文健康领域，单作者文章更为常见。此外，这些类型的文章在不同期刊上的出版频率也存在差异，流行病学的文章总数高于其他两个子领域的文章总和。
发现的不同作者模式对评估计划和研究人员的过程具有重要意义。否则，将威胁到巴西集体卫生三十年来一直具有的多学科特征的长期可持续性。
