Artigo de Periódico
Produção científica dos professores de cursos de Geografia das universidades federais de Minas Gerais analisada sob a ótica da Teoria das Elites (Princípio de Pareto)
Fecha
2017Autor
André Augusto Rodrigues Salgado
Institución
Resumen
This paper has examined quantitatively the
knowledge production published in scientific
journals by Professors of federal higher
education courses in Minas Gerais over the
past six and a half years. In general ways, we
evaluated this production in the context of the
Elite Theory and, in particular, in the context
of the Pareto Principle. The Pareto Principle
or Pareto Law states that 80% of effects come
from 20% of causes and that is inevitable in
almost all human activities the formation of one
elite. The data for analysis were collected from
the pages of the courses and / or departments
and on the CNPq Lattes Platform. The results
indicate that, in terms of the total production of
papers in scientific journals, it is not possible
to identify an elite according to the Pareto
Principle. However, in terms of the most
qualified and most impactful production, ie,
those with JCR equal to or greater than 0.500,
this elite exists and in many cases is responsible
for 100% of this type of production. At the
same time, it was possible to verify the lack of
relationship between the number of professors
in a department and their scientific productivity,
and that, in Minas Gerais, the publication
of geographic knowledge is numerous, but
generally has low impact. Finally, it was
possible to realize that, although the exceptions,
few Professors can be very productive in terms
of total and high impact publications.