Plataforma Lattes do CNPq elogiada na Nature

O artigo Let's make science metrics more scientific da Nature, de 25 de março, ressalta o esforço do Brasil em aperfeiçoar a avaliação de desempenho em ciência citando a Plataforma Lattes:

"The Brazilian experience with the Lattes Database (http://lattes.cnpq.br/english) is a powerful example of good practice. This provides high-quality data on about 1.6 million researchers and about 4,000 institutions. Brazil's national funding agency recognized in the late 1990s that it needed a new approach to assessing the credentials of researchers. First, it developed a 'virtual community' of federal agencies and researchers to design and develop the Lattes infrastructure. Second, it created appropriate incentives for researchers and academic institutions to use the database: the data are referred to by the federal agency when making funding decisions, and by universities in deciding tenure and promotion. Third, it established a unique researcher identification system to ensure that people with similar names are credited correctly. The result is one of the cleanest researcher databases in existence."

Ilustração do artigo da Nature