CAPES-Elsevier Awards 2024

For this year's edition, the winners were selected based on the discipline-weighted citation index, which measures the impact of a work compared to others of the same type format (i.e., articles compared to articles), in the same discipline and year of publication, extracted from Elsevier's SciVal, a tool for evaluating scientific production and metrics. The data was exported as of September 25, 2024. In addition to this metric, researchers with a minimum of five (5) publications in the indicated discipline over the past five (5) years (2019-2023) were eligible for the award. Elsevier and the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) of the Ministry of Education (MEC) will hold the sixth edition of the CAPES-Elsevier Awards on November 6th at the CAPES building in the afternoon. According to the latest report on gender equity in research published by Elsevier, Progress Toward Gender Equality in Research & Innovation – 2024, Brazil ranks third in female participation in research, following Argentina and Portugal. The percentage of women among scientific publication authors in the country rose from 38% in 2002 to 49% in 2022. The report will be discussed during the award ceremony. The winning researchers are:

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North Region

• Exact Sciences: Josiane Santana Monteiro

• Medical Sciences: Mayla Gabriela Silva Borba

• Humanities: Flávia Regina Capellotto Regin Costa

Northeast Region

• Exact Sciences: Tatiana Baptista Gibertoni

• Medical Sciences: Nicole Leite Galvão-Coelho

• Humanities: Fernanda X. Palhano-Fontes

Central-West Region

• Exact Sciences: Symone Gomes Soares Alcalá

• Medical Sciences: Ana Maria Nogales Vasconcelos

• Humanities: Jéssica E.M. Farias

Southeast Region

• Exact Sciences: Tabata Aira Ferreira

• Medical Sciences: Alessandra Carvalho Goulart

• Humanities: Patrícia Vanzella

South Region

• Exact Sciences: Sandra C. Müller

• Medical Sciences: Maria Inês Schmidt

• Humanities: Mary Rute Gomes Esperandio

About CAPES Periodicals Portal

The CAPES Periodicals Portal is one of the world's largest virtual scientific collections, providing high-quality scientific knowledge, subscribed with international publishers and scientific societies, to professors, researchers, staff and students of participating institutions. It offers over 40,000 full-text titles, 74 reference databases, ten exclusive patent databases, more than 280,000 electronic documents, technical standards, encyclopedias, statistics and audiovisual content.

The Portal also offers selected free content, such as open-access databases, nationally ranked journals in the Qualis-CAPES Program, as well as abstracts of theses and dissertations defended in the country since 1987.

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About CAPES

CAPES is a foundation linked to the Ministry of Education responsible for the stricto sensu (master's and doctoral) postgraduate system in Brazil. CAPES fosters, evaluates and regulates postgraduate education in the country, establishing criteria that guide teaching and research institutions in pursuing excellence. Its policies are always made after extensive consultation with the academic community through collegial bodies and evaluation commissions, composed of qualified researchers nominated by postgraduate programs and scientific associations.

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