Lattes Platform
Geraldo Sorte
CNPq, Brazil
Ministério da
Ciência e Tecnologia
About CNPq
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CNPq
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National Council for Development of Science and Technology
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Federal funding agency
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Linked to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
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Created in 1949
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Organization chart
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CNPq’s Information Systems
Lattes
Carlos Chagas
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CVs
Institutions
Research
groups
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ERP
DMS
Web services
DB
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CNPq’s Information Systems
Lattes
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Person
Institutions
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Facilities
Equipments
S&T Prodution
Projects
Carlos Chagas
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Grants
Scholars
Documents
Governmental Programs
Financed projects
Outcomes
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Lattes Platform
Origin and History
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Lattes Platform
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Lattes is the Brazilian database of researchers, students,
institutions and research groups
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Honors Cesar Lattes, co-discovered
of the -meson
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Launched in august, 1999
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Timeline of Lattes
• CNPq defines a
standard form for
Researcher’s CV
• Database of
institutions in S&T is
created
1987
• CNPq provides, via
BITNET, access to the CV
database to Brazilian
universities
1988
1989
1990
• Lattes CV is released and
unifies the different versions
of CV forms
• CNPq makes available via
Internet the Lattes Platform
• 1st Census of
Research Groups in
Brazil
1993
1995
1997
1998
1999
• 1st Electronic form of CV
• CV database is
created
• Institutions create their
own CV forms for
researchers
• CNPq hires university
groups to jointly develop
the Lattes CV
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Timeline of Lattes
Europe
• Lattes is recognized by
the Brazilian
government as the best
e-government initiative
• Lattes in
Mozanbique
• Lattes
Committee is
created
Portugal
ngola
• Integration with
Bilbiographic Databases
Spain
Mozambique
Africa
2002
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2012
• Scien TI network is created
•Lattes in Colombia, Equador,
Chile, Peru, Argentina
Mexico
Nicarágua
• Integratiom with Patent
Database
Cuba
Costa
Rica Panama
Venezuela
Colombia
• DOI validation
• Cross check data
validation
• Citations of articles
• Integration with RFB
Ecuador
Brasil
Peru
Paraguay
Chile
Argentina
Uruguay
• Integratiom with
Crossref.org Database
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Lattes Databases
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Lattes Database Components
CVs
Institutions
Research
Groups
Lattes
Data
warehouse
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Some Numbers...
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CVs
 2,7 Million CVs registered
Research Groups
 33 thousand research groups in 473
research institutions
Institutions
 18 thousand Brazilian institutions
and 6 thounsand institutions from
abroad
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• Data extraction in nov/2012
CV Database growth
3.000.000
2.796.922
2.541.577
2.500.000
Amount of CVs
2.067.617
2.000.000
1.664.040
1.500.000
1.288.108
957.481
1.000.000
877.663
642.920
479.758
500.000
251.897
46.843
345.776
95.221 117.576
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1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Year
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
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Percentage
CV Database growth (%)
120%
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Period
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CV Database
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CV Database - Students
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Lattes CV of Foreigners
Top 15 Countries
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S&T Production
Total Nr. of CVs
2,786,922
Number of CVs with at least one item of scientific, technical or artistic
production
1,683,081
Number of CVs with at least one published article
426,979
Number ofCV with at least one patent application
9,874
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Research Groups Database
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Institutions Database (Brazil)
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Institutions Database (Abroad)
Top 15 Countries
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Classes of Information
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CV and Institution Database
PERSON
INSTITUTION
Faculty
Member
NonAcademic
Non-Faculty
Academic
Professor
Student
•Graduate
Student
•Undergra
duate
Student
•High
school
student
BIBLIGRAPHIC
PRODUCTION
TECHNICAL
PRODUCTION
University
Patent
Performing
Arts
Book
Process or
technique
Trade
mark
Visual Arts
Book
chapter
Research
report
College
Funding
Organizatio
n
Government
Agency
Private
Company
State
Company
ARTISTIC
PRODUCTION
Product
Paper
Research
Institute
PATENT
Paper in
proceedings
Cartography
map
Consulting
report
Protected
plant
variety
Integrated
circuit
topography
Music
EVENT
Conference
Exhibit
Symposium
Meeting
PROJECT
Research
project
Technological
development
project
Extension
project
Presentation
Competition
Industrial
design
Software
Hospital
Scientific
Organization
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S&T Production Data
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Publications
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Patents
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DOI, ISBN and IVIP to avoid duplication
On line retrieval of metadata from Crossref.org and
LattesDB
On line and overnight process to unified bilbiographic
production
Citations retrieval from Scopus, ISI and Scielo
Registration number to unify registers
On line retrieval of metadata from INPI database
Supervisory of MsC and PhD
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Cross reference between supervisor and student
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Personal and Theses Data
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Personal data
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Theses
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On line validation at the income taxes database – Receita
Federal do Brasil
Theses and Dissertation Database – IBICT
Postgratuate programs
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Postgraduate programas database - CAPES
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Characteristics of Lattes
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Characteristics of Lattes
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Free admission
Registry required to apply for funding
Content available for public access
Information exchange standards defined in colaboration
with universities and other S&T Agencies
Data certification
Interoperability
Unique identification of the researcher
New developments and improvements defined by
representatives of the scientific community
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Website and Statistics
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Lattes Website
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Lattes Website Statistics
Average Daily Updates
16.000
14.000
 15,043 updates per day
in 2012
12.000
10.000
8.000
6.000
4.000
2.000
0
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Average Daily Visits
120.000
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 100,057 visits in 2012
80.000
60.000
40.000
20.000
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2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Visits in 2013
Source: Google Analytics
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Visits in 2013 per Country
Source: Google Analytics
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CV Dashboards
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Uses of Lattes Platform
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To find expertise in a particular
scientific domain
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To support governmental programs
 Interaction between research groups and companies in the
semiconductor and pharmaceuticals fields.
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The IBM Case
 In order to decide on the establishment of a research
institute in Brazil, IBM asked the Ministry of Science and
Technology to identify researchers in the country working
on a few areas of interest:
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Computational Geosciences;
Smart Integrated Operations;
Nanotechnology Materials;
Computational Materials Science;
Environment Identity Device;
Event Cloud Platform;
and others.
 A quick search in the Lattes Platform provided the number
and the list of such experts
 IBM has already decide favorably for Brazil
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To evaluate productivity of researchers
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To identify networks
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To search for research projects funded
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To track the mobility of researchers
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To analyze the evolution of Masters and
PhDs degrees
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To analyze the distribution
of PhD and MSc
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To compare the distribution of PhD by
institution and area
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To analyze production indicators
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Production per type
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Citations and h-Index
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Bibliographic production per period
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Supervisory activities
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Papers published per journal
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Papers published per coauthor
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Patents and Technical Production
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To provide data exchange and
interoperability
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Lattes Web Services
Retrieve
LattesID
Nov/13
Oct/13
Sep/13
Aug/13
Retrive
last
update
Jul/13
Jun/13
Retrieve CV
and
Research
Group XML
May/13
Apr/13
Mar/13
Feb/13
Jan/13
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60 million access
150 institutions
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To track citations of articles
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Citations in Web of Science
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Citations in Scopus
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Citations in Scielo
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To identify the impact factor of
journals (JCR)
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Discutions and implementations in
progress
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Research Infrastructure Database
 1st census of research infrastructure
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Research Institutions Directory
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Public and private institutions
ID for institutions
Equipments
Research facilities
Exchange data
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Research Groups Directory
 New version
 Relationship between public and private sectors
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CV Database
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New version
Certification for CVs of foreigner
Integration with other governamental databases
Patents in international patent offices
Integration with information systems of the
universities
Mirror in other countries (country dataset)
S&T Production Dashboards
Researcher fingerprints
Integration with ORCID
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ORCID and Lattes
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Common data (articles published)
Affiliation and professional experience in Lattes
Exchange data
Exercise
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ORCID and Lattes
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Carlos H. Grohmann
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http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5073-5572
http://lattes.cnpq.br/1460935168710629
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ORCID and Lattes
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F. M. Faleiros
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http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5073-5572
http://lattes.cnpq.br/1460935168710629
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The experience of Lattes
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Thank you.
http://lattes.cnpq.br
http://www.cnpq.br
[email protected]
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