scholarly journals Flaminio Rota: Fame and Glory of a 16th Century Anatomist without Scientific Publications

Author(s):  
Gianfranco Natale ◽  
Paola Soldani ◽  
Marco Gesi ◽  
Emanuele Armocida

Academic activity is intrinsically composed of two aspects: teaching and research. Since the 20th century, the aphorism “publish or perish” has overwhelmingly established itself in the academic field. Research activity has absorbed more attention from the professors who have neglected teaching activity. In anatomical sciences, research has focused mainly on ultrastructural anatomy and biochemical aspects, far removed from the topics addressed to medical students. Will today’s anatomists be rewarded by their choice? To generate a forecast, we should entrust what history has already taught us. For this analysis, an example was taken, concerning the fate that history reserved for the anatomy teachers of the University of Bologna in the second half of the 16th century. Thanks to Vesalius (1514–1564), experimentation on the human body replaced the old dogmatic knowledge, and didactic innovation was one with research. Some figures were highly praised despite their poor scientific production. The present article focuses on the figure of Flaminio Rota, who was highly esteemed by his colleagues in spite of no significant scientific activity. Reasons for this paradox are examined. Then, history also whispers to us: publish, but without perishing in the oblivion of students.

PARADIGMA ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 409-436
Author(s):  
Ligia Sánchez ◽  
Maidelis Herrera ◽  
Mairene Sánchez

Se indagó respecto a la resistencia que tienen los estudiantes universitarios de involucrase en la actividad investigativa durante su proceso de formación universitaria. Se desarrolló una investigación de campo desde una perspectiva cualitat iva, soportada en la Fenomenología con estudiantes de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, de la Universidad de Carabobo (Venezuela). Para la captura de la información se recurrió a los grupos de discusión y laobservación participante . Se organizaron cinco grupos en total, tres con siete participantes y dos con seis ; todos cursantes de las Escuelas de Administración Comercial y de Contaduría Pública . De los resultados emergió que la formación para la investigación científica, durante la carrera se efectúa a través de las asignaturas del componente de investigación . Se captó que resistencia de los estudiantes a la actividad investigativa , durante su formación universitaria está anclada a la existencia de una brecha que se ha gestado entre la actividad investigativa que desarrollan los docentes en la institución y la actividad que los estudiantes realizan en sus TEG . Los estudiantes tienen poco conocimiento respecto a la actividad científica que se desarrolla en la universidad, lo cual limita su participación e involucramiento en dichas actividades y genera cierta aprehensión y temor producto de miedos e inseguridad es, ya que la investigación se ve como algo reservado para los elegidos . Ade más, la poca motivación hacia la investigación, apareció relacionada a la experiencia vivida en las asignaturas del componente de investigación, la dinámic a y la didáctica utilizada por la mayoría de los docentes; a sí como a la desarticulación entre estas asignaturas con las asignaturas del área disciplinar . A pesar de ello los estudiantes consideraron que el ejecutar el proyecto de investigación del Trabajo Especial de Grado es relevante en su formación profesional , por su utilidad académica y su potencial para fortificar el conocimiento disciplinar.Palabras clave: Investigación en la universidad, formación en investigación, Trabajo de gradoResumoFoi pesquisado sobre a resistência dos estudantes universitários, no envolvimento das atividades de pesquisa, durante seu processo de formação universitária. Foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo, desde a abordagem qualitativa, com base na fenomenologia, com estudantes da Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, da Universidad de Carabobo (Venezuela). A coleta de dados foi realizada com grupos de discussão e a observação participante. Foram organizados cinco grupos no total, sendo três com sete participantes e dois com seis. Todos estudantes das Escuelas de Administración Comercial y de Contaduría Pública. Os resultados apontam que a formação em pesquisa científica, durante a graduação, acontece por meio dos conteúdos das disciplinas de pesquisa. Os dados apontam que a resistência dos estudantes à atividade de pesquisa durante a sua formação universitária está associada à existência de uma lacuna que se criou entre a atividade de pesquisa, desenvolvida pelos docentes na instituição, e a atividade que os estudantes realizam em seus Trabajo Especial de Grado (TEG). Os estudantes possuem pouco conhecimento sobre a atividade científica que se desenvolve na universidade. Este fato limita sua participação e envolvimento nessas atividades e gera certa apreensão e temor, consequência de medos e inseguranças, já que a pesquisa é entendida como algo reservado aos escolhidos. Além disso, a pouca motivação para a pesquisa apareceu relacionada à experiência vivida nas disciplinas dos conteúdos de pesquisa, a dinâmica e a didática utilizada pela maioria dos professores, assim como a desarticulação entres estas disciplinas, com as disciplinas da área disciplinar. Apesar disto, os estudantes consideram que realizar o projeto de pesquisa do TEG é relevante na sua formação profissional, por sua utilidade acadêmica e seu potencial para fortalecer o conhecimento disciplinar.Palavras-chaves: Pesquisa na Universidade; Formação em Pesquisa; Trabalho de Conclusão de CursoScientific Research in the Training of University StudentsAbstract I was investigated regarding the resistance that university students have to get involved in research activity during their university training process. A field research was developed, from a qualitative perspective, supported in Phenomenology with students from the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, from the University of Carabobo (Venezuela). Discussion groups and participant observation were used to capture the information. A total of five groups were organized, three with seven participants and two with six; all students from the Schools of Commercial Administration and Public Accounting. From the results it emerged that the training for scientific research, during the career, is carried out through the lectureships of the research component. It was noted that student resistance to research activity, during their university training, is anchored to the existence of a gap, which has arisen between the research activity carried out by professors in the institution and the activity that students carry out in their Special Degree Work. Students have little knowledge regarding the scientific activity that takes place in the university, which limits their participation and involvement in these activities and generates a certain apprehension and fear due to the unknown and insecurities, since research is seen as something reserved for the "chosen ones". Furthermore, the low motivation towards research appeared related to the experience lived in the lectureships of the research component, the dynamics and didactics used by most of the professors; as well as the disarticulation between these lectureships with the ones of the disciplinary area. Despite this, the students considered that executing the final research project of the Special Degree Work is relevant in their professional training, due to its academic usefulness and its potential to strengthen disciplinary knowledge. Keywords: Research at University, Research Training, Undergraduate work


PARADIGMA ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 409-436
Author(s):  
Ligia Sánchez ◽  
Maidelis Herrera ◽  
Mairene Sánchez

Se indagó respecto a la resistencia que tienen los estudiantes universitarios de involucrase en la actividad investigativa durante su proceso de formación universitaria. Se desarrolló una investigación de campo desde una perspectiva cualitat iva, soportada en la Fenomenología con estudiantes de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, de la Universidad de Carabobo (Venezuela). Para la captura de la información se recurrió a los grupos de discusión y laobservación participante . Se organizaron cinco grupos en total, tres con siete participantes y dos con seis ; todos cursantes de las Escuelas de Administración Comercial y de Contaduría Pública . De los resultados emergió que la formación para la investigación científica, durante la carrera se efectúa a través de las asignaturas del componente de investigación . Se captó que resistencia de los estudiantes a la actividad investigativa , durante su formación universitaria está anclada a la existencia de una brecha que se ha gestado entre la actividad investigativa que desarrollan los docentes en la institución y la actividad que los estudiantes realizan en sus TEG . Los estudiantes tienen poco conocimiento respecto a la actividad científica que se desarrolla en la universidad, lo cual limita su participación e involucramiento en dichas actividades y genera cierta aprehensión y temor producto de miedos e inseguridad es, ya que la investigación se ve como algo reservado para los elegidos . Ade más, la poca motivación hacia la investigación, apareció relacionada a la experiencia vivida en las asignaturas del componente de investigación, la dinámic a y la didáctica utilizada por la mayoría de los docentes; a sí como a la desarticulación entre estas asignaturas con las asignaturas del área disciplinar . A pesar de ello los estudiantes consideraron que el ejecutar el proyecto de investigación del Trabajo Especial de Grado es relevante en su formación profesional , por su utilidad académica y su potencial para fortificar el conocimiento disciplinar.Palabras clave: Investigación en la universidad, formación en investigación, Trabajo de gradoResumoFoi pesquisado sobre a resistência dos estudantes universitários, no envolvimento das atividades de pesquisa, durante seu processo de formação universitária. Foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo, desde a abordagem qualitativa, com base na fenomenologia, com estudantes da Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, da Universidad de Carabobo (Venezuela). A coleta de dados foi realizada com grupos de discussão e a observação participante. Foram organizados cinco grupos no total, sendo três com sete participantes e dois com seis. Todos estudantes das Escuelas de Administración Comercial y de Contaduría Pública. Os resultados apontam que a formação em pesquisa científica, durante a graduação, acontece por meio dos conteúdos das disciplinas de pesquisa. Os dados apontam que a resistência dos estudantes à atividade de pesquisa durante a sua formação universitária está associada à existência de uma lacuna que se criou entre a atividade de pesquisa, desenvolvida pelos docentes na instituição, e a atividade que os estudantes realizam em seus Trabajo Especial de Grado (TEG). Os estudantes possuem pouco conhecimento sobre a atividade científica que se desenvolve na universidade. Este fato limita sua participação e envolvimento nessas atividades e gera certa apreensão e temor, consequência de medos e inseguranças, já que a pesquisa é entendida como algo reservado aos escolhidos. Além disso, a pouca motivação para a pesquisa apareceu relacionada à experiência vivida nas disciplinas dos conteúdos de pesquisa, a dinâmica e a didática utilizada pela maioria dos professores, assim como a desarticulação entres estas disciplinas, com as disciplinas da área disciplinar. Apesar disto, os estudantes consideram que realizar o projeto de pesquisa do TEG é relevante na sua formação profissional, por sua utilidade acadêmica e seu potencial para fortalecer o conhecimento disciplinar.Palavras-chaves: Pesquisa na Universidade; Formação em Pesquisa; Trabalho de Conclusão de CursoScientific Research in the Training of University StudentsAbstract I was investigated regarding the resistance that university students have to get involved in research activity during their university training process. A field research was developed, from a qualitative perspective, supported in Phenomenology with students from the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, from the University of Carabobo (Venezuela). Discussion groups and participant observation were used to capture the information. A total of five groups were organized, three with seven participants and two with six; all students from the Schools of Commercial Administration and Public Accounting. From the results it emerged that the training for scientific research, during the career, is carried out through the lectureships of the research component. It was noted that student resistance to research activity, during their university training, is anchored to the existence of a gap, which has arisen between the research activity carried out by professors in the institution and the activity that students carry out in their Special Degree Work. Students have little knowledge regarding the scientific activity that takes place in the university, which limits their participation and involvement in these activities and generates a certain apprehension and fear due to the unknown and insecurities, since research is seen as something reserved for the "chosen ones". Furthermore, the low motivation towards research appeared related to the experience lived in the lectureships of the research component, the dynamics and didactics used by most of the professors; as well as the disarticulation between these lectureships with the ones of the disciplinary area. Despite this, the students considered that executing the final research project of the Special Degree Work is relevant in their professional training, due to its academic usefulness and its potential to strengthen disciplinary knowledge. Keywords: Research at University, Research Training, Undergraduate work


Author(s):  
Jorge Daher Nader ◽  
Amelia Patricia Panunzio ◽  
Marlene Hernández Navarro

Research is considered a function aimed at obtaining new knowledge and its application for the solution to problems or questions of a scientific nature, The universities framed in the fulfillment of their social function have a complex task given by training a competent professional who assumes research as part of their training and who learns to ask questions that they are able to solve through scientific research.  Scientific research is an indicator of the quality of processes in the university environment, so it must be increased by virtue of the results of the work carried out by research teachers and students the objective of this work is to know the perception of the teachers of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Guayaquil about the scientific activity. Objective: to know the perception of the teachers of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Guayaquil about the scientific activity. Methods: theoretical and empirical level were used, a questionnaire with closed questions aimed at knowing the opinions on the research activity in this institution was applied. Result: that of the sample analyzed 309 (39.3%) said they agreed with the training for the writing of scientific articles. 38.6% said they agree with the training on research projects. Conclusion: that teacher’s research should be enhanced to ensure the formation and development of research skills in students.


1970 ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Anders Johansen

Museum studies as museum development This text points to the strategic value of museological studies for the development of the museum sector. In Norway, the museum is the sole exception to the rule that a medium or a cultural institution of any importance be regarded as an academic field of study. Lacking the kind of systematic knowledge, critical reflection and discussion of basic premises which normally originate in independent outsider positions, Norwegian museums are consequently deprived of a vital stimulus. In the case of the university museums, the absence of attention to common, specifically museum related problems is seen as an obstacle to che development of coherent institutions out of the various scientific disciplines. In a wider perspective, museums are seen as being not fully established within the cultural public sphere. The enviable attention paid to other kinds of cultural products partly depends on university courses furnishing critics, reviewers and debaters with descriptive languages, analytical skills and evaluative standards. Without these courses, and without the research activity chat makes chem possible, even literature, painting, and film would miss che kind of qualified conversations that actually mediate between creative activity and the interests of a wider public. Hence the establishment of a museological field of research is seen as a precondition for comparable activities highlighting museum events, pointing out their more or less interesting problematics and their possible relevance to society. 


Author(s):  
Luana Brito Oliveira ◽  
Suzana Leitão Russo

Ticks are distributed all over the world and significantly affect human and animal health. Increasing public health concern with tick borne diseases requires the strategic control of ticks in animals that transmit diseases to humans. The aim of this article is to present a bibliometric analysis of the scientific production related to tick control, using bibliometrics as an instrument of analysis to measure scientific activity. To identify the studies , a search was made on four Scopus databases, Web of Science, Medline / Pubmed and Science Direct. Of 1764 publications, only 480 were analyzed after the exclusion of certain productions according to previously defined criteria. It was pointed out that the identified studies have great relevance for the control of ticks, considering that scientific publications are important markers of the activity of production and development of the field of knowledge.


Author(s):  
Natalia Bulyk

This article is dedicated to famous Lviv archaeologist Markian-Orest Smishko, whose 120-th anniversary is celebrated by the scientific community on November 7, 2020. The life and scientific activity of archaeologists during periods of different political regimes are displayed on the basis of a large source base. Lion’s share of the researcher’s archives is preserved in Lviv. However, most of them, in particular, materials from the family archive, were introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. M. Smishko was born, lived and worked all his life in Lviv. His formation as an archaeologist can be dated back to the interwar period and is associated with the Polish University of Lviv. Till 1939, he discovered, researched, and put into scientific circulation a large number of archaeological sites that made his name well-known. Special place in his scientific research of this time belongs to sites of the Early Roman period. Simultaneously, M. Smishko conducted classes for students, took part on scientific grants, organized archaeological collection of the University and restored archaeological finds. He was one of L. Kozłowski’s favorite pupils. The next stage of M. Smishko’s life is connected with academic archeology of Lviv. From 1940 to 1961, M. Smishko headed the Department of Archeology, which was a leading academic institution in western Ukraine. Initially, it was Lviv Department of the Institute of Archeology of Academy of Sciences of USSR, and since February 1951 – Department of Archeology of the Institute of Social Sciences of Academy of Sciences of USSR. Here M. Smishko showed himself best as a scientist and organizer of academic activity, carried out his most resonant field research, published most important scientific works, including «Карпатські кургани І тисячоліття нашої ери» («Carpathian barrows of the first millennium AD») (1960) in which he distinguished a separate archaeological culture of Carpathian Tumuli, defended his doctoral dissertation (1965), raised a whole constellation of his pupils and followers. Key words: Markian Smishko, barrows, cemeteries, burial sites, Early Slavic archeology, Roman period, Carpathian Tumuli culture, glass workshop, Komariv.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 285-291
Author(s):  
Jorge Elías Dáher Nader ◽  
Dra Amelia Patricia Panunzio ◽  
Marlene Isabel Hernández Navarro ◽  
Ing. Mario Angel Royero Moya

Scientific research is an indicator of the quality of processes in the university environment, so it must be increased by virtue of the results of the work carried out by research teachers and students. Objective: to know the perception of the students of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Guayaquil about the scientific activity. Methods: theoretical and empirical level were used, a questionnaire with closed questions aimed at knowing the opinions on the research activity in this institution was applied. Result: that of the sample analyzed 295 (36.3%) said they agreed with the training for the writing of scientific articles. 35.6% said they agree with the training on research projects.  Conclusion: that undergraduate research should be enhanced to ensure the formation and development of research skills in students.


Author(s):  
Mario Gajdacs

Aims: Scientometrics is a field concerned with the qualitative and quantitative analysis of scientific publications, which are frequently used in the field of library and information sciences. The aim of this study to present a general overview of the journal Acta Biologica Szegediensis (ABS) from 1997 to 2019 (a 23-year period) using bibliometric indicators. Methodology: The data analysed in this study was extracted from the Scopus database. The information was exported in RIS file format to the Harzing’s Publish or Perish 7.22 and VOSviewer 1.6.15 for data analysis. Clusters and co-occurrence networks of the authors and keywords of the published documents were generated. Results: The number of documents published in ABS during the study period was n=795, the most frequently published document type was „original article” (n=534, 67.2%). Articles published between 1997 and 2019 were cited 4289 times overall, averaging in 5.39 citations per paper and 186.5 cites/year. The average number of authors per paper increased consistently throughout the years (from 2.82 to 4.23). Conclusion: ABS is in a unique position; while it is primarily a journal of the University of Szeged, it has received increasing attention from an international scientific audience, both from molecular and supra-individual biologists, pharmacists and other medical scientists. The submission of additional articles from a wider audience would definetly strengthen the international reach and scientific impact of the journal.


Author(s):  
Artem Artyukhov ◽  
Tetyana Vasilyeva

The chapter deals with the description of the author's university research integrity dissemination system. The scientific infrastructure of the classical university is shown (by the example of Sumy State University); SWOT-analysis of scientific activity in terms of observing the principles of research integrity is carried out. Some cases of violation of the principles of research integrity (Ukraine as a case study) are presented. The blocks of the research integrity dissemination system in various sectors of research activity are described. The activity of the university center for technology transfer and coordination of research integrity in the scientific activity of the university is presented.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Doukkali Sanaa

This research focuses on the scientific production of academic staff in Human and Social Sciences (HSS) in Moroccan universities. It takes place in a context marked by strong pressures related to scientific research and by changes in the mission of the University that impact the work of the academic at all levels. With regard to HSS, the Moroccan university system appears to be far from being in line with the logic of global competition, and the research activity of the academic staff in HSS is often out of step with institutional policies and the needs of national and international evaluation systems. This can be seen from the publication figures reported in commissioned reports or expert assessments carried out by national or international organizations, or by the scarcity of work that has studied the determinants of the production of academic staff in HSS in Morocco. Hence the objective of this research is to formulate a research model that gathers the potential determinants of the level of scientific production of academic staff and that is adapted to the context of Moroccan universities. Our research therefore aims to fill certain gaps in the knowledge of the social dynamics of knowledge production practices by HSS researchers who are often confused with their colleagues in other scientific fields.


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