2009
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-76382009000400004
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Fator de impacto: importância e influência no meio editorial, acadêmico e científico

Abstract: In this report the authors present information on the bibliometric tools and their importance in measuring the quality of scientific journals and researchers. They present in particular the history and deployment of the impact factor of the existing Institute for Scientific Information since 1955. It is presented and discussed the criticism regarding the inadequacy of the impact factor for evaluation of scientific production, misuse and strategies editorial handling of the bibliometric index. It is presented t… Show more

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“…Seu uso mais corriqueiro refere-se aos periódicos científicos (Garfield, 1999). Entretanto, apesar da ampla aceitação, o FI é alvo de críticas, frequentemente relacionadas à definição da base de dados e ao método de apuração (Ruiz, Greco, & Braile, 2009), à limitação da cobertura e à não inclusão de livros, anais e documentos de trabalho, além de não serem numerosos os documentos em línguas diferentes do inglês (Harzing & Wal, 2008;Sanderson, 2008).…”
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“…Seu uso mais corriqueiro refere-se aos periódicos científicos (Garfield, 1999). Entretanto, apesar da ampla aceitação, o FI é alvo de críticas, frequentemente relacionadas à definição da base de dados e ao método de apuração (Ruiz, Greco, & Braile, 2009), à limitação da cobertura e à não inclusão de livros, anais e documentos de trabalho, além de não serem numerosos os documentos em línguas diferentes do inglês (Harzing & Wal, 2008;Sanderson, 2008).…”
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“…Returning to my initial point, the devaluation of Brazilian journals; this began with the Qualis classification that is, in truth, one of the factors responsible for this distortion and for the stacking performed by Brazilian publishers (5) . The way forward is to stimulate national researchers primarily at the start of their career, encouraging them to publish in Brazilian journals, rather than choosing a journal by the impact factor, which is normally forced on them by their tutor who is sometimes only interested in the curriculum.…”
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“…However, several publications have shown that the IF is not a good instrument to evaluate researchers and even the editor of Science has shown strong doubts in relation to this bibliometric index (2-5) .…”
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