It is not a crisis itself, if does not promote changes

Abstract

Brazil has been going through crisis in the past three years, due to often and systemic cuts in funds in multiple fields of society, such as education, health, science and technology, affecting directly on Brazilian scientific production. The nursing scientific production-as being an integrative part-now experiences a phase of quantitative decline in the global share, opposite to the exponential phase verified in the last decade, in other words, reduced amounts of articles are being published and it can affect the nursing scientific production in the international scenario. THE RESTRAINED DEMAND Promotion agencies-allocating funds-effectively support the Brazilian nursing scientific production, and create meritocratic mechanisms more and more elaborated to offer less, for fewer people. It is directly reflected on Stricto Sensu Post-Graduate/ Masters and PhD, potential producers of scientific knowledge and innovation. Coordinators now expect more from their faculty, thus, having obvious repercussion over learners. This nefarious policy encourages the low-quality publication, the salami science phenomenon, and the "integrative reviews of complete texts in Portuguese". The pseudoscience concept is a clear symptom of what nursing has been trying to shun for some time. Promotion agencies decide to who they will offer less-based on the indexes established by indexers and publishers unavailable by the huge majority of nursing journals-since the standardization established for insertion in those bases presuppose a compromising financial contribution, including for the largest journals in Brazil. So, the cruel bibliometrics principles logic is perpetuated, well established by the laws of Lotka (Inverse Square Law), Bradford and Zip. Most journals' only chance of survival is passing on costs imposed by publishers for authors to keep themselves in the scenario and aspire from indexers bases the upward trend of bibliometric indexes. Editors in Brazil, carry out a volunteer work that exceeds their work time established in their contract-as all university activities are unchangeable-as graduation and undergraduate classes, guidance, support for university students in practical field, need for publication, preparation and correction of tests, submission of proposals to notices, extension and innovation projects, among others.