Academic productivity and its impacts in Postgraduate programs: is it a threat to solidarity between peers?/O produtivismo academico e seus impactos na posgraduacao stricto sensu: uma ameaca a solidariedade entre pares?

• Published in: Cadernos EBAPE.BR 2015-03, Vol.13 (1), p.1
• Main Authors: Patrus, Roberto, Dantas, Douglas Cabral, Shigaki, Helena Belintani
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• ISSN: 1679-3951; 1679-3951
• DOI: 10.1590/1679-39518866

Academic productivity, understood in this essay as a phenomenon derived from the evaluation processes of Postgraduation, is characterized by the excessive appreciation of the amount of academic production rather than its quality. Academic solidarity is understood here as a mutual commitment among researchers, who voluntarily dedicate their time to evaluate products of the activity of a Post-graduate program. Among these activities, we chose peer review as an "exemplary paradigm" of academic solidarity. This article aims to discuss the impacts of academic productivity in postgraduate programs and evaluate how it threatens academic solidarity that makes it possible. Based on the distinction between the concepts of collaboration and solidarity, made by the authors, the article alerts to the risk of academic solidarity be destroyed by academic productivity. Even if it happens, there will be no productivity without collaboration, without the silent and anonymous work of many and many reviewers that offer their time and expertise to evaluate their peers' papers. Such collaboration, however, would be alienated without the notion of participation in a community of researchers. In short, there is not productivity without collaboration, although productivity may exist without solidarity. Keywords: Academic productivity. Academic solidarity. Collaboration. Peer review. O produtivismo academico, entendido neste ensaio como um fenomeno derivado dos processos de avaliacao da posgraduacao, se caracteriza pela excessiva valorizacao da quantidade da producao academica, tendendo a desconsiderar a sua qualidade. Ja a solidariedade academica e entendida aqui como um compromisso mutuo entre os pesquisadores, que voluntariamente dedicam-se a avaliacao de produtos da atividade de um programa de pos-graduacao. Entre essas atividades, escolhemos a avaliacao de artigos por pares como "paradigma exemplar" da solidariedade academica. Objetiva-se, com este texto, discutir os impactos do produtivismo na pos-graduacao stricto sensu e avaliar o quanto o produtivismo ameaca a solidariedade academica que o torna possivel. A partir da distincao entre os conceitos de colaboracao e solidariedade, forjados pelos autores, chama-se a atencao para o risco de o produtivismo corroer a nocao de solidariedade academica. Mesmo que isso ocorra, nao havera produtivismo sem colaboracao, sem o trabalho silencioso e anonimo de um sem-numero de avaliadores de periodicos que disponibilizam o seu tempo e sua