Building the Brazilian Academic Genealogy Tree

TL;DR

This paper constructs the Brazilian academic genealogy tree using data from the Lattes Platform, aiming to map researcher mentorship and academic lineage within Brazil's scientific community.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to building academic genealogy trees specifically for Brazil using the Lattes Platform data, expanding previous work on global researcher lineages.

Findings

Successfully built the Brazilian academic genealogy tree

Revealed mentorship patterns within Brazilian research community

Provided a new resource for studying scientific mentorship in Brazil

Abstract

Along the history, many researchers provided remarkable contributions to science, not only advancing knowledge but also in terms of mentoring new scientists. Currently, identifying and studying the formation of researchers over the years is a challenging task as current repositories of theses and dissertations are cataloged in a decentralized way through many local digital libraries. Following our previous work in which we created and analyzed a large collection of genealogy trees extracted from NDLTD, in this paper we focus our attention on building such trees for the Brazilian research community. For this, we use data from the Lattes Platform, an internationally renowned initiative from CNPq, the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, for managing information about individual researchers and research groups in Brazil.