Um modelo populacional para análise de genealogia acadêmica: Evidências sobre crescimento acadêmico no Brasilgia acadêmica: Evidências sobre crescimento acadêmico no Brasil

Recent studies have analyzed the formation of new scientists at the master’s and doctorate levels. However, such analyzes does not take into account how the academics’ career are. In this sense, this work expands the analysis of the relationships established between advisors and advisees towards a population growth model. We apply this model to a group composed of more than 1 million formal mentoring relationships established at the masters and doctoral levels, and at the post-doctoral supervision. The main contributions of this work are as follows. (a) The building of a population model applicable to academic genealogy graphs, (b) the indication of a decrease in the percentage of academics who become advisors themselves, and (c) the indication that senior academics have higher productivity when compared to other academic categories.