The present work aimed to analyze the profile of researchers in psychology with productivity grants from Brazil's National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq), according to the information collected at the website called Lattes Platform. Numbers of papers, book chapters and books, as well as undergraduate, master and doctoral students' orientations were raised considering 297 researchers with productivity grants. This survey was conducted in the last week of April 2011. Information from the institutions where the researchers work were also collected. Descriptive analyses were held (frequencies, means and standard deviation of the study variables) to characterize the level of productivity of the sample, and inferential analyses were also conducted (Chi-square and ANOVA) to compare the productivity grants researchers of each category in what refers to the number of publications, orientations, social demographical data and institutional characteristics. The results showed the female gender (63%) and the grant type 2 (58,6%) were majority among productivity grants researchers. The majority of researchers works at public institutions (79,1%). The Southeast showed the major number of productivity researchers (53,6%), followed by the South (18,5%). Researchers with grants type 1A e 1B, which means high categories, presented significant higher means of papers, books and book chapters publications, as well as finished students' orientations. The results implications and the study limitations are discussed.
Scientific research; Scientists; Research policy evaluation; Productivity grants; Scientific and technical activities; Psychology
