title: Profile and scientific output analysis of physical therapy researchers with research productivity fellowship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the profile and the scientific output of physical therapists researchers holding a research productivity fellowship (PQ) from the Brazilian National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico-CNPq).
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a cross-sectional study, which has evaluated the Lattes Curriculum of all PQ physiotherapy researchers registered at CNPq holding a research productivity fellowship in the period of 2010. The variables analyzed were: gender, geographic and institutional distribution, duration since doctorate defense, research productivity fellowship level, scientific output until 2010 and the H index in Scopus(®) and ISI databases.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 55 PQ from the CNPq were identified in the area of knowledge of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy, being 81.8% from the Southeast region of Brazil. They were predominantly female (61.8%), with research productivity fellowship level PQ2 (74.5%), and with average time since doctorate defense of 10.1 (±4.1) years. A total of 2.381 articles were published, with average of 42.5 (±18.9) articles/researcher. The average of articles published after doctorate defense was 39.40 (±18.9) articles/researchers with a mean output of 4.2 (±2.0) articles/year. We found 304 articles indexed in the Scopus(®) database with 2.463 citations, and 222 articles indexed in the Web of Science with 1.805 citations. The articles were published in 481 journals, being 244 (50.7%) of them listed on JCR-web. The researchers presented a median 5 of the H index in the Scopus(®) database, and a median 3 in ISI.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The scientific output of the researchers with research productivity fellowship in the field of physical therapy stands out in their indicators, since the figures are very promising for a relatively young area and as it can be observed by the amount of published articles and citations obtained by the national and international research community.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, Universidade de Cruz Alta (UNICRUZ), Cruz Alta, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Giovani
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sturmer
authors.forename: Carolina C M
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Viero
authors.forename: Matheus N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Silveira
authors.forename: Janice L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Lukrafka
authors.forename: Rodrigo D M
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Plentz
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D035843:Biomedical Research; D001938:Brazil; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D026761:Physical Therapy Specialty; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012108:Research Personnel; D012958:Societies, Scientific