> From: Rajeev.Gore@rsise.anu.edu.au
> To: Alberto Henrique Frade Laender <laender@dcc.ufmg.br>,
>       Celso da Cruz Carneiro Ribeiro <celso@inf.puc-rio.br>,
>       Claudio Leonardo Lucchesi <lucchesi@dcc.unicamp.br>,
>       Flavio Rech Wagner <flavio@inf.ufrgs.br>,
>       Henrique Pacca Loureiro Luna <pacca@tci.ufal.br>,
>       Jose Carlos Maldonado <jcmaldon@icmc.sc.usp.br>,
>       Virgilio Augusto Fernandes Almeida <virgilio@dcc.ufmg.br>
> Cc: Rajeev.Gore@rsise.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Letter of support for Ruy de Queiroz
> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:26:58 +1100
>
>
> Dear Members of the Brazilian Research Council,
>
> I am writing to support Professor Ruy de Queiroz's request to be
> allowed to continue to hold his research grants from the Brazilian
> Research Council.
>
> Although Professor de Queiroz may not have published greatly over the
> last five years, his international standing has only grown with his
> participation on various editorial boards and guest editor roles.
>
> The traditional role of an academic as a publisher of articles has
> changed dramatically over the last ten years. We are now expected to
> hold editorial positions, to take part in program committees for
> international conferences, to organise international conferences, to
> apply for grant money, to develop prototypes, and even to
> commercialise our research. It is not possible to carry out all these
> tasks without impinging negatively on our publication rate.
> Indeed, in some fast-moving areas of research, conference publications
> far outweigh archival journal publications due to the long time for
> journal publications to appear.
>
> I therefore urge caution in judging the worthiness of a researcher's
> contributions by his journal publication alone.
>
> I can confirm that Professor de Queiroz has consistently maintained a
> high international profile through his various editorial activities,
> his organisation of international conferences and his
> publications. These non-publishing activities are time consuming, but
> bring a lot of kudos to Professor de Queiroz and Brazil.
>
> yours sincerely,
> raj
>
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