Variable,Variable name,Measurement unit,Allowed values,Description
idcnpq,CNPq ID,Categorical,Hexadecimal,"Anonymized author’s ID number in the Lattes Platform, which is maintained by CNPq"
sexo,Gender,Categorical,"Male, Female",Gender is inferred from the author’s first name with the genderBR package for R
com_especializacao,After specialization,Binary,"0 = No, 1 = Yes",Whether the journal article was published on the same year or after the author became a family and community physician
modo_especializacao,Mode of specialization,Categorical,"Medical Residency, Certification",Whether the author first specialized through a medical residency or was recognized through the certification procedure
posgraduacao,Level of the postgraduate degree,Categorical,"None, Master’s, Ph.D.",Highest tostgraduate degree earned in the same year or before the journal article was published
ultima_area,Knowledge area,Categorical,"None, MEDICINA, SAÚDE COLETIVA, etc. See http://lattes.cnpq.br/web/dgp/arvore-do-conhecimento",
artigo_id,Article ID,Categorical,Hexadecimal,"Anonymized article ID, such as the PubMed ID, the LILACS/BVS ID, the DOI, or created ad hoc from the metadata "
ano,Year,Integer,1979-2018,Publication year of the journal article
peso_autoria,Authorship weight,Real,(0;1],"Author contribution to the journal article, inferred from the position in the byline, with harmonic weighting"
descritores,Keywords,Text,Semicolon-separated list,String pasting together the MeSH or DeCS (in English) descriptors associated with the article in MEDLINE or LILACS