“…Another criticism concerns the linkage between the actions of evaluation and financing of the SNPG, a system based on rewards and punishments for the performance of programs to guarantee the entrance/exit, elevation/preservation/fall of concepts, number of scholarships, and volume of financial aid, among others. On the other hand, despite having stimulated the expansion and qualification of postgraduation, the process may also be contributing to the persistence of imbalances and inequalities between researchers, programs, institutions, and regions [15,16,24,25,[28][29][30][31][32][33]. Regarding the methodology used by the SNPG to classify journals (Qualis journals), the specific object of this work, a good portion of the selected literature considers that the assessment process of CAPES overvalues the quantitative over the qualitative and the international over the national/ local [15][16][17]20,21,[24][25][26][27]31,33].…”