The fellowship of research productivity (PQ) granted by the national council for scientific and technological development (CNPq), besides the financial support, renders a significant status among Brazilian researchers of all areas of knowledge. Consequently, both the profile and the criteria for holding a PQ fellowship become of interest to the entire Brazilian scientific community. In this paper, we model the decision criteria as a weighted sum of the scientific production and the supervisory experience of an applicant for PQ fellowship. The scientific production is measured as the number of publications grouped according to the QUALIS system provided by the Brazilian federal agency for the improvement of higher education (CAPES). The Lattes curricula of PQ fellows in the field of mathematics, along with the curricula of many non-PQ researchers of similar institutions, were used to estimate a criteria for receiving PQ fellowship in category 2. By allowing a certain tolerance, the model reproduced the decision criteria within acceptable bounds over a database composed of 320 curricula.
scientific production; research productivity fellowship; mathematics; quadratic programming problem
