%0 Journal Article %T Profile and scientific production of Brazilian researchers in oral pathology %A Santos %A Maria Ivanilde Pereira %A Leite %A B¨¢rbara Gusm£¿o Lopes %A Parana¨ªba %A L¨ªvia M¨¢ris Ribeiro %A Oliveira %A Eduardo Araujo %A Ver¨ªssimo %A Francisco Marcone %A Oliveira %A Rafael Amancio Dias de %A Martelli-J¨²nior %A Herc¨ªlio %J Revista de Odontologia da UNESP %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1807-25772012000600004 %X objective: this study evaluated the profile and scientific production of research-ers in oral pathology who received grants in the area of dentistry from the brazilian national research and development council. material and method : the standardized online curriculum vitae (curriculum lattes) of 34 researchers in oral pathology who received grants in the years 2008-2010 were analyzed. the variables were: gender, affiliation, time from completion of the phd program, scientific production, and supervision of undergraduate students and master's and phd programs. result: the states of s£¿o paulo (52.94%) and minas gerais (26.47%) were responsible for 79.41% of the researchers. regarding af-filiation, three institutions accounted for approximately 44.11% of the researchers: unicamp (17.64%); usp (14.70%); and ufmg (11.76%). the researchers published a total of 906 full-text articles, with a median of 26.64 articles per re-searcher in the triennium and 8.88 articles per year. it was found that of 906 articles published, 366 (40.39%) were published in strata a (qualis-capes). oral pathology researchers supervised 437 scientific initiation and post-graduate students. of these, 138 (31.57%) were scientific initiation, 169 (38.67%) were master and 130 (29.74%) were phd students. conclusion: an important scientific production of oral pathology researchers in the 2008-2010 triennium was observed. by knowing the profile of researchers in oral pathology, more effective strategies for encouraging scientific production and demanding resources to finance research projects can be defined. %K scientific publication indicators %K research personnel %K dental research %K relationship between researcher and scientific production %K brazil. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1807-25772012000600004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en