Classification of journals in the QUALIS System of CAPES – Urgent need of changing the criteria!

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“…Nevertheless, the two major Brazilian research agencies, CAPES and CNPq, are applying the impact factor for the evaluation of postgraduate programs and individual researchers. 1 - 4 The following illustrates the weakness of the impact factor as a measure of science and shows that it actually has a negative impact on science.…”

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“…Using the impact factor to measure scientific production is currently a highly debated matter, even in this journal 1-4. Along with other researchers,1-10 Eugene Garfield,11 the man who came up with the impact factor, has considered the procedure to be inadequate.…”

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“…Using the impact factor to measure scientific production is currently a highly debated matter, even in this journal. 1 - 4 Along with other researchers, 1 - 10 Eugene Garfield, 11 the man who came up with the impact factor, has considered the procedure to be inadequate. The European Association of Scientific Editors 12 officially recommends that journal impact factors should not “be used for the assessment of single papers, and certainly not for the assessment of researchers or research programs, either directly or as a surrogate”.…”

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“…Impact factors are used as cut‐off points for the classification of scientific journals. When governmental institutions, such as CAPES in Brazil, arbitrarily elevate the cut‐off levels for funding purposes, 1 , 2 the existence of some smaller national journals may be jeopardized. Because of bureaucratic pressure, authors will only try to publish their manuscripts in journals with the highest impact factors in their research field, rather than looking for the journal with the most suitable audience for their topic.…”

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QUALIS: The journal ranking system undermining the impact of Brazilian science

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A journal ranking system called QUALIS was implemented in Brazil in 2009, intended to rank graduate programs from different subject areas and promote selected national journals. Since this system uses a complicated suit of criteria (differing among subject areas) to group journals into discrete categories, it could potentially create incentives to publish in low-impact journals ranked highly by QUALIS. Here I assess the influence of the QUALIS journal ranking system on the global impact of Brazilian science. Results reveal a steeper decrease in the number of citations per document since the implementation of this QUALIS system, compared to the top Latin American countries publishing more scientific articles. All the subject areas making up the QUALIS system showed some degree of bias, with social sciences being usually more biased than natural sciences. Lastly, the decrease in the number of citations over time proved steeper in a more biased area, suggesting a faster shift towards low-impact journals ranked highly by QUALIS. Overall, the findings documented here suggest that the QUALIS system has undermined the global impact of Brazilian science, and reinforce a recent recommendation from an official committee evaluating graduate programs to eliminate QUALIS. A journal ranking system based on internationally recognized impact metrics could avoid introducing distorted incentives, and thereby boost the global impact of Brazilian science.

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Classification of journals in the QUALIS System of CAPES – Urgent need of changing the criteria!

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Bureaucrats, researchers, editors, and the impact factor - a vicious circle that is detrimental to science

Bureaucrats, researchers, editors, and the impact factor - a vicious circle that is detrimental to science

The global permutations of the Western publication regime

QUALIS: The journal ranking system undermining the impact of Brazilian science

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