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Escolha da Profissão , Educação de Pós-Graduação , Pesquisadores , Ciência , Brasil , Educação de Pós-Graduação/estatística & dados numéricos , Educação de Pós-Graduação/tendências , Pesquisadores/educação , Pesquisadores/estatística & dados numéricos , Ciência/educação , Ciência/estatística & dados numéricosRESUMO
OBJECTIVES: In public health and clinical settings insufficient dissemination of evidence-based practices limits the reach of new discoveries to broad populations. This study aimed to describe characteristics of the dissemination process by researchers across three countries (Brazil, United Kingdom, and United States), explore how designing for dissemination practices has been used, and analyze factors associated with dissemination. METHODS: A similar online survey was used to query researchers across the three countries; data were pooled to draw cross-country conclusions. FINDINGS: This study identified similarities and differences between countries. Importance of dissemination to nonresearcher audiences was widely recognized as important; however, traditional academic venues were the main dissemination method. Several factors were associated with self-rated dissemination effort in the pooled sample, but these predictive factors (e.g., support and resources for dissemination) had low prevalence. Less than one-third of researchers rated their level of effort for dissemination as excellent. Respondents reported limited support and resources to make it easier for researchers who might want to disseminate their findings. CONCLUSION: Though intentions show the importance of dissemination, researchers across countries lack supports to increase dissemination efforts. Additional resources and training in designing for dissemination along with improved partnerships could help bridge the research-practice gap.
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Acesso à Informação , Pesquisa sobre Serviços de Saúde/estatística & dados numéricos , Disseminação de Informação/métodos , Internacionalidade , Alocação de Recursos/estatística & dados numéricos , Ciência/estatística & dados numéricos , Brasil , Saúde Pública/estatística & dados numéricos , Reino Unido , Estados UnidosAssuntos
Países em Desenvolvimento/estatística & dados numéricos , Editoração/estatística & dados numéricos , Pesquisadores/estatística & dados numéricos , Ciência/estatística & dados numéricos , Bibliometria , Brasil , Eficiência , América Latina , Pesquisadores/normas , Apoio à Pesquisa como Assunto/estatística & dados numéricos , Pesquisa/normas , Pesquisa/estatística & dados numéricos , Ciência/classificaçãoAssuntos
Países em Desenvolvimento/estatística & dados numéricos , Editoração/estatística & dados numéricos , Pesquisadores/estatística & dados numéricos , Ciência/estatística & dados numéricos , Bibliometria , Brasil , Eficiência , América Latina , Pesquisa/normas , Pesquisa/estatística & dados numéricos , Pesquisadores/normas , Apoio à Pesquisa como Assunto/estatística & dados numéricos , Ciência/classificaçãoAssuntos
Países em Desenvolvimento/estatística & dados numéricos , Editoração/estatística & dados numéricos , Pesquisadores/estatística & dados numéricos , Ciência/estatística & dados numéricos , Bibliometria , Brasil , Eficiência , América Latina , Pesquisa/normas , Pesquisa/estatística & dados numéricos , Pesquisadores/normas , Apoio à Pesquisa como Assunto/estatística & dados numéricos , Ciência/classificaçãoRESUMO
The set of factors, events and actions of mankind in the social processes dedicated to the production the dissemination, the teaching and the publication of scientific knowledge constitutes the conditions for the development of a particular type of culture, quite commonplace in the contemporary world, which may be called scientific culture. In this article, we intend to present the representation of the dynamics of this area of knowledge in the form of a spiral: The Spiral of Scientific Culture. Also, we introduce the term cultural well-being--the kind of comfort, other than the social well-being, which has to do with society's relationships with the technosciences, involving values and attitudes, habits and information, and presupposing an actively critical participation on the part of that society in the totality of these relationships.
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Cultura , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde/etnologia , Ciência/organização & administração , Brasil , Comunicação , Educação Profissionalizante/organização & administração , Comportamentos Relacionados com a Saúde , Humanos , Disseminação de Informação/métodos , Conhecimento , América Latina , Patentes como Assunto , Ciência/estatística & dados numéricos , Ciência/tendênciasRESUMO
A new scientometric indicator, the h-index, has been recently proposed (Hirsch JE. Proc Natl Acad Sci 2005; 102: 16569-16572). The index avoids some shortcomings of the calculation of the total number of citations as a parameter to evaluate scientific performance. Although it has become known only recently, it has had widespread acceptance. A comparison of the average h-index of members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (BAS) and of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (NAS-USA) was carried out for 10 different areas of science. Although, as expected, the comparison was unfavorable to the members of the BAS, the imbalance was distinct in different areas. Since these two academies represent, to a significant extent, the science of top quality produced in each country, the comparison allows the identification of the areas in Brazil that are closer to the international stakeholders of scientific excellence. The areas of Physics and Mathematics stand out in this context. The heterogeneity of the h-index in the different areas, estimated by the median dispersion of the index, is significantly higher in the BAS than in the NAS-USA. No elements have been collected in the present study to provide an explanation for this fact.
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Academias e Institutos/estatística & dados numéricos , Bibliometria , Pesquisadores/estatística & dados numéricos , Ciência/estatística & dados numéricos , Brasil , Humanos , National Academy of Sciences, U.S. , Estados UnidosRESUMO
A new scientometric indicator, the h-index, has been recently proposed (Hirsch JE. Proc Natl Acad Sci 2005; 102: 16569-16572). The index avoids some shortcomings of the calculation of the total number of citations as a parameter to evaluate scientific performance. Although it has become known only recently, it has had widespread acceptance. A comparison of the average h-index of members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (BAS) and of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (NAS-USA) was carried out for 10 different areas of science. Although, as expected, the comparison was unfavorable to the members of the BAS, the imbalance was distinct in different areas. Since these two academies represent, to a significant extent, the science of top quality produced in each country, the comparison allows the identification of the areas in Brazil that are closer to the international stakeholders of scientific excellence. The areas of Physics and Mathematics stand out in this context. The heterogeneity of the h-index in the different areas, estimated by the median dispersion of the index, is significantly higher in the BAS than in the NAS-USA. No elements have been collected in the present study to provide an explanation for this fact.