The Profession of Medical Researchers and State Intervention: Incentives for the Knowledge Production.
The Profession of Medical Researchers and State Intervention: Incentives for the Knowledge Production.
Monday, 7 July 2025
Location: ASJE022 (Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences)
Distributed Paper
In the mexican context in 1984, a program called the National System of Researchers (SNI,-Sistema Nacional de Investigadores for its acronym in Spanish) was implemented, created by the Federal Government and the Mexican Academy of Scientific Research, considered as an innovative tool in relations between the Mexican State and the publics universities through incentives granted by evaluations.
The SNI, sought to reduce the effects of the 1982 economic crisis that affected the scientific community of Mexico, offering a salary complement (non -contractual) to teachers who also demonstrated the development of lines of research, since the evaluation criteria were determined by: 1) primary products, which included the quality valued in articles, chapters, books, etcetera and 2) secondary products, such as teaching and dissemination evidences (Foro Consultivo Científico y Tecnológico, AC, 2016).
Forty years after its implementation, the SNI is still valid, offering the research teachers of eight knowledge areas, the possibility of accessing the monetary incentive in accordance with the evaluations that will determine the level at which they will obtain the distinction in: a) Candidate, b) Level I, c) Level II, d) Level III and E) Emeritus. This proposal aims to show the perception of twelve doctors who are also research and teachers assigned to the University of Guadalajara, who have the distinction of the SNI. Among the results that are presented, we distinguish some disagreements derived from: a) the speed with which they must present their research products to meet the evaluations of the SNI, b) the heavy institutional bureaucratic processes for the development of their research and c) The perception of gender distinctions in the institutional context.
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The SNI, sought to reduce the effects of the 1982 economic crisis that affected the scientific community of Mexico, offering a salary complement (non -contractual) to teachers who also demonstrated the development of lines of research, since the evaluation criteria were determined by: 1) primary products, which included the quality valued in articles, chapters, books, etcetera and 2) secondary products, such as teaching and dissemination evidences (Foro Consultivo Científico y Tecnológico, AC, 2016).
Forty years after its implementation, the SNI is still valid, offering the research teachers of eight knowledge areas, the possibility of accessing the monetary incentive in accordance with the evaluations that will determine the level at which they will obtain the distinction in: a) Candidate, b) Level I, c) Level II, d) Level III and E) Emeritus. This proposal aims to show the perception of twelve doctors who are also research and teachers assigned to the University of Guadalajara, who have the distinction of the SNI. Among the results that are presented, we distinguish some disagreements derived from: a) the speed with which they must present their research products to meet the evaluations of the SNI, b) the heavy institutional bureaucratic processes for the development of their research and c) The perception of gender distinctions in the institutional context.
References
Foro Consultivo Científico y Tecnológico, AC. (2016). Obtenido de El Sistema Nacional de Investigadores en números: https://www.foroconsultivo.org.mx/libros_editados/SNI_en_numeros.pdf