ASSESSMENT OF SCIENTIFIC PROFILES AND CAPABILITIES OF PHD PROGRAMS INCHILE - A SCIENTOMETRIC APPROACH

It is well known that the quality of a doctorate program is related to the level of involvement of its faculty in research. Thus, we worked with the hypothesis that postulates that if the in-house scientific ou tput of the core faculty involved in a Ph.D. program can be appraised in such a manner that the achievements render quantitative and qualita tive indicators, it is possible to depict profiles amenable for compar isons. We describe the methodology, that uses performance scientometri c indicators, and results obtained after studying five Ph.D. programs in the field of Cell and Molecular Biology/Biochemistry in three diffe rent Chilean universities and show that the approach serves to portray the in-house capacity of each program vis a vis national and internat ional standards.