Produção acadêmica de pesquisadores brasileiros e diferenciais de gênero

Abstract

Understanding the role of individual and family factors in the academy is fundamental to determine the academic production of researchers. Investigating what determines academic productivity among university researchers, highlighting gender differences, is the objective of this study. In this study, a nationally representative sample of 4.730.337 researchers was used for the period from 2003 to 2018, from data obtained from the Lattes Platform of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Three publication dimensions are distinguished to determine the gender effect on research productivity as accurate as possible. Those being: total publications, publications with the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) and publications that were published in impact journals that are contained within Scientific Journal Rankings (SJR). The main results show that age and academic productivity have an inverted U relationship, revealing that experience enhances academic production for men and women. Regarding gender differences, it was observed that women usually have lower average productivity than men. The results also showed that having children has a negative effect on women's research productivity.