QUALIS: Quo Vadis?

Andrade, Jailson B. de; Galembeck, Fernando

doi:10.1590/s0100-40422009000100001

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“…Brazil boasts the major research and graduate system in Latin America and the Caribbean (Andrade and Galembeck 2009). It is currently the 24th in global research, with areas that include biology such as "Earth & Environmental Sciences" and "Life Sciences" together comprising approximately ¼ of the top research in the country (Nature Index 2016).…”

Section: Alternatively Various Intermediate Ideologies Considermentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolutionary thinking among biology students in a third world country

Cardoso

Rezende

2017

Evo Edu Outreach

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Background: Evolutionary thinking is traditionally directly related to education and inversely to religiosity. Accordingly, biology students are naturally expected to be more prone to naturalist evolution due to their close contact with this theory and high scientific literacy. To test this, we performed a cross-national study surveying biology students' evolutionary opinions in Brazil, contrasting the proportions of creationism (Cr), divinely guided evolution (DGE) and naturalist evolution (NaE). Results:We found that NaE comprised 44.4%, DGE 43.3%, and Cr 12.3% of students' opinions. NaE was higher among postgraduate than undergraduate students. There were marked geographic differences, with NaE peaking in the most socioeconomically developed regions and Cr in the less. Opinions related to divine influence as a whole (Cr + DGE) became more likely as the score of students' institutions decreased (i.e. institutions with lower-quality standards). Conclusions:Most biology students paradoxically do not have NaE as an explanation (55.6%), a high proportion given their presumed contact with the theory. We demonstrate that socioeconomic and institution quality factors are apparently important in determining the evolutionary thinking patterns. NaE paucity among biology students may also be influenced by low scientific literacy and the extreme religiosity of the population, which incorporates divine influence in students' opinions long before they have any contact with evolutionary theory.

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confidence: 99%

Evolutionary thinking among biology students in a third world country

Cardoso

Rezende

2017

Evo Edu Outreach

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“…The main rule is that the percentage of A ratings (A1 and A2 combined) in a given area should be no more than 25% of the total serials in that area, and the percentage of ratings A1 should be less than the percentage of A2. The total percentage of A1, A2 and B1 ratings in a given area should be no more than 50% of total serials in the area (Andrade & Galembeck, 2009;Mafalda et al, 2015). Combined, these three rules mean than no more than half the journals can be rated in the top three categories, and the higher categories have to be more selective than those below it.…”

Section: Brazil's Journal Rating Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring, rating, supporting, and strengthening open access scholarly publishing in Brazil

Neto

Willinsky

Alperin

2016

EPAA

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This study assesses the extent and nature of open access scholarly publishing in Brazil, one of the world's leaders in providing universal access to its research and scholarship. It utilizes Brazil's Qualis journal evaluation system, along with other relev ant data bases to address the association between scholarly quality and open access in the Brazilian context. Through cross tabulation among these various data sets, it is possible to arrive at a reasonably accurate picture of journals, systems, ratings, and disciplines. The study establishes reliable measures and counts of Brazilian scholarly publications, the

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“…The current version of the system requires, besides the items mentioned above, the impact factor of journals, as it is applied for Chemistry, Physics and Biology, and other areas that categorize their publications in journals ISI/JCR and SciELO (Andrade and Galembeck, 2009). Those criteria must be combined with their periodicals indexation in databases and informative resources (Goldstein Junior, 1999), assuring their quality.…”

Section: The Qualis/capes Listmentioning

confidence: 99%