Qualis (CAPES)
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Qualis is a Brazilian official system with the purpose of classifying scientific production. It is maintained by the Coordenadoria de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), a government agency linked to the Brazilian Ministry of Education.
Qualis has the task to classify and evaluate the academic means used on the production of scientific publications of post-graduate programs (such as master theses and doctoral dissertations). The classification itself occurs by a system of grades, per field of evaluation, and depends on the level of circulation (local, national or international) and on the quality of the journal (A, B, or C).
Grades
[edit]The classification is annually updated and follows a series of criteria defined by CAPES, such as: number of issues, indexation, number of publishing institutions, impact factor based on JCR, etc. The grades (so called "strata") occur in a 1–8 scale (A1, the highest; A2; B1; B2; B3; B4; B5; C — not listed).[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (Feb 2010). "Classification of journals in the QUALIS System of CAPES – Urgent need of changing the criteria!". Clinics (Sao Paulo). 65 (2): 121–123. doi:10.1590/S1807-59322010000200001. ISSN 1807-5932. PMC 2827696. PMID 20186293.
Further reading
[edit]- Ribeiro, R. J., "Brazil", chap.7 in Maresi Nerad and Mimi Heggelund (Eds.) Toward a global PhD?: forces and forms in doctoral education worldwide, University of Washington Press, 2011, 353 pages. [1]
- Delgado-Troncoso, J.E. and Fischman, G.E., "The future of Latin American journals", chap.16 in Bill Cope and Angus Phillips (Eds.) The Future of the Academic Journal, Chandos Publishing, 2014, 478 pages. [2]
- Metze, K. "Bureaucrats, researchers, editors, and the impact factor - a vicious circle that is detrimental to science, Clinics, 65:10, doi:10.1590/S1807-59322010001000002
- Rocha-e-Silva, M. "Impact factor, scimago indexes and the Brazilian journal rating system: where do we go from here?" Clinics, 65:4, doi:10.1590/S1807-59322010000400001
- Ferreira, R.C.; Antoneli, F.; Briones, M. R. S. (2013). "The hidden factors in impact factors: a perspective from Brazilian science". Front Genet. 4: 130. doi:10.3389/fgene.2013.00130. PMC 3708068. PMID 23874351.
External links
[edit]- WebQualis (CAPES) (in Portuguese)
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