Presented to the Congregation of the Medical School of USP on June 29th, the new version of the Intellectual Production Observatory (OPI) of the FMUSP-HC “stops being a repository to effectively become an intellectual production observatory of international relevance”, as explained by the technical head of the FMUSP Library, Eidi Raquel Franco Abdalla.
The OPI gathers all of the indexed production from the FMUSP-HC System and associated institutions. For that, it is constituted in the shapes of communities and sub-communities. The Communities are the Medical School, the Clínicas Hospital and its institutes, the University Hospital, the Medical Investigation Laboratories (LIMs) and the Institute of Tropical Medicine (IMT) and the sub-communities follow the organizational structure of each organ.
Eidi explains that the project began in 2013, on the Library, on the coordination of Maria Crestana, from the demand of professor Jose Otavio Costa Auler Jr., then the exercise director of the Medical School. “Professor Auler was the idealizer of the project and the great instigator throughout the process”, she reinforces. The challenge was to gather the scientific production of the Medical School and the Clínicas Hospital and identifying the institutions’ researchers, a task that took months to be concluded. The first version was ready in October 2014, functioning as a repository which gathered the researchers’ productions.
With the new version, the OPI not only gathers, but it monitors, capts, registers, analyses, preserves and makes intellectual production available from the FMUSP-HC System. Rosa Maria Fischi, current coordinator of the project, explains the new version brings several functionalities, as the H index of the communities and sub-communities, personalized pages of every researcher and his/hers filiation on the System, links for the Lattes Curriculum, the ResearcherID and the ORCID, publication list with number of quotations, coauthoring frames with the System’s researchers, a graphic of the scientific production of the indexed files, amongst others.
Accompanying the project from the beginning, professor Geraldo Busatto Filho, executive director of the LIMs, highlights that the information available from the OPI has also a great utility for the analyses, throughout the time, of the evolution of objective indicators related, for instance, to the amount and the impact of the scientific productions of every sub-community of the FMUSP-HC System and the internal and external collaboration networks of these groups. He claims that thanks to the OPI, the extraction of these indicators can be done quickly, extensively and in a constant updating, something which several years ago was recognized as necessary for the improvement of the Research management of our System and is now a reality.
Access here: www.observatorio.fm.usp.br
