I protest against the method used to evaluate scientific production used in Brazil

The cock, the Academy, and the best scientific journal in the world

“…Other major funding agencies in Brazil – Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) – are also believed to use the impact factor for evaluating the productivity of their applicants and grantees, even though they do not have a formal, CAPES-like, impact factor-based system. While many Brazilian scientists and journal editors protested against the heavy reliance of foundations on the impact factor, some editors allegedly adapted to the new trend by trying to inflate their journals' impact factors; 23 you can follow this story by reading the series of editorials by Milton Ruiz, the former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia 24,25 …”

The consequence of stacking by Brazilian journals

“…In the last editorial of the RBHH, we highlighted the problems that occurred in relation to the use of the Impact Factor and Qualis classification of scientific journals and our anxiety to improve journals in the JCR ranking (3) . The desire of editors, driven by academic authors, has resulted in misconduct as described in the declaration of the ABEC and SciELO.…”