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The relationship between advisors and students

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Considering the influence of graduation courses on the scientific productivity in Brazil, fifty productive Brazilian scientists working in life sciences were interviewed about their relationship with their advisors and their own experience with their students. Admired by freedom and intellectual qualities, by their love and dedication for science, advisors seem to have had a deep influence on their students. This bond is not free from either an idealized frame or from some complaints and conflicts. Interviewed scientists see in themselves lesser qualities and faults but the same respect for freedom. Some students are thought to be specially important to the interviewed's productivity. Eldest and most productive scientists seem to be intellectually more impressed by their advisors than the other groups. The emotional and sometimes strong and idealized bond between advisor and students lead us to believe that the stated frequencies of conflicts might be underestimated.

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  1. Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, FINEP, Praia do Flamengo, 200, 22210-030, RJ, (Brazil)

    Lucia Fonseca

  2. Departmento de Bioquímica Médica, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21941-590, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, (Brazil)

    Sancia Velloso & L. De Meis

  3. Departmento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 90050, Porto Alegre, RS, (Brazil)

    Susana Wofchuk

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Fonseca, L., Velloso, S., Wofchuk, S. et al. The relationship between advisors and students. Scientometrics 41, 299–312 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02459047

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