Does thesis and dissertations generate scientific papers? Analysis based in 3 physical education graduate programs
Titel:
Does thesis and dissertations generate scientific papers? Analysis based in 3 physical education graduate programs
Auteur:
Plínio dos Santos Ramos Emanuel Couto Furtado Elcy Ramon Franco Carvalho Monique Opuszcka Campos Daniel Vieira Braña Côrtes de Souza Luiz Daniel Pereira de Almeida Claudio Gil Soares de Araújo
Verschenen in:
Brazilian journal of biomotricity
Paginering:
Jaargang 3 (2009) nr. 4 pagina's 315-324
Jaar:
2009
Inhoud:
RAMOS, P. S.; FURTADO, E. C.; CARVALHO, E. R. F.; CAMPOS, M. O.; SOUZA, D. V. B. C.; ALMEIDA, L.D. P.; ARAÚJO, C. G. S. Does thesis and dissertations generate scientific papers? Analysis based in 3physical education graduate programs. Brazilian Journal of Biomotricity, v. 3, n. 4, p. 315-324, 2009.Objective: To evaluate, retrospectively, published papers originating from thesis and dissertations concludedin three graduate programs (GP) in Physical Education. Methods: Titles and name of authors from thesis anddissertations concluded in 1998 and 2002 of 3 GP were searched in order to identify the published papers.Following, the papers were divided according to: master or doctoral degree, conclusion year, primaryemphasis (biological or sociocultural), institution and, if, they were published in indexed journals or not -Medline-PubMed and/or SciELO – in the following five years. Results: A total of 94 graduates concluded in1998 and 2002 in the three GP selected, generating a total of 46 published papers, being only eight of themin indexed journals, all produced predominantly with biological emphasis. While, the number of concludingstudents almost double from 1998 to 2002 - 31 to 66 -, the number of published papers remained steady,producing a mean publication rate decrease from .70 to .38. The mean publication rate is larger for doctoratecourses (p = .005) and about twice larger for those with biological emphasis (p=.041). The graduatedprogram better evaluated by CAPES has a higher publication rate (p=.012), while the number of publishedpapers do not differ between the two other GPs (p=.11). Conclusion: Recent quantitative and qualitativeincrement of overall Brazilian scientific production, as papers published in journals, it seems not be occurringin Physical Education GP. The inclusion of a specific item in GP reports to CAPES regarding paperspublished in the years following conclusion of graduate studies will allow a reliable and valid follow-up of theGPs’ graduate publication rate.