The scientific production of Nutrition published by the Scientific Electronic Library under the gaze of the evaluation of the Coordination for the Development of Higher Education Personnel

Abstract

Objective: Perform analysis of the scientific production of Nutrition published by the Scientific Electronic Library under the gaze of the evaluation of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior. Methods: Systematic search was performed in the 286 current title journals, using the "article search" path, the "subject index" window and the "Nutrition" indexer. The articles and periodicals selected were analyzed in order to answer the following questions: Which journals from Scientific Electronic Library publish articles on Nutrition? Do these journals have an impact factor as measured by the Journal Citation Reports? Which are? What is the classification of these journals by the areas of evaluation of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, specifically by the area of Nutrition? Results: We analyzed 779 articles published in 85 journals. The majority of articles (n=698; 89.6%) were related to the area of Health Sciences. The five journals with higher volumes of articles were: Brazilian Journal of Nutrition, Reports in Public Health, Public Health Journal, Science & Public Health and Journal of Pediatrics. Most (62.4%) does not have Journal Citation Reports. The Nutrition area not rated any journal in strata A1 and A2, classifying them from B1 to B4. For eight areas analyzed their specific journals were induced to the upper strata of Qualis (A1, A2 and B1). Conclusion: The analyzed journals are the main vehicles of circulation of scientific paradigms of national scientific communities. Considering the correlation of forces between the vehicles of circulation of scientific knowledge in the international context, stimuli for valorization and qualification of these journals are essential.

Scientific production of Nutrition courses in Food and Nutrition in Collective Health: contributions to the debate on professional performance

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Scientific production of researchers in the Nutrition field with productivity fellowships from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development

“…The impact factor is also used by funding agencies and by CAPES to qualify professionals and degrees, as well as to qualify and define research policies [30]. A study on scientific production in nutrition by Vasconcelos [31], published by the SciELO according to an evaluation by the CNPq, analyzed the scientific production of nutrition and found that most of the publications (62.4%) had no impact factor, as measured by Journal Citation Reports. In this study, the bibliometric data on the productivity research grant/CNPq researchers in Nutrition were much more expressive, reaching 70.0% of articles published in journals with an impact factor.…”

Brazilian postgraduate programs in Food and Nutrition: Considerations on evaluation procedures

“…The journal quality ranks of the Qualis system led to important considerations for improving evaluation criteria of multidisciplinary research fields, such as Food and Nutrition, as shown by the requests of different scientific fields. For instance, the 2013-2016 CAPES report was subject to debate regarding (a) the use of multiple bibliometric indicators to measure qualitatively and quantitatively citations of papers and books; (b) the strategy of promoting 4 national journals by providing the necessary assistance to foster the insertion of Brazilian vehicles for the dissemination of scientific knowledge in international spaces; and (c) the need to broaden our evaluation perspective so as to incorporate qualitative aspects and the different modes of knowledge production in a context of epistemic multiplicity [22,23]. However, this debate did not provoke changes, and evaluation criteria are now based almost exclusively on short-term (two-year) citation indicators of international journals.…”