ref="http://lattes.cnpq.br/" class="external-link">Lattes</a> platform has been
hosting curricula of Brazilian researchers since the late 1990s,
containing more than 5 million curricula. The data from the Lattes
curricula can be downloaded to <code>XML</code> format, the complexity
of this reading process motivated the development of the
<code>getLattes</code> package, which imports the information from the
<code>XML</code> files to a list in the <code>R</code> software and then
tabulates the Lattes data to