The hidden factors in impact factors: a perspective from Brazilian science
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FIGURE 1 | Statistics of impact factors of journals indexed in the Brazilian Qualis. BBActa, Biochemical and Biophysical Acta; JCM, Journal of Clinical Microbiology; BMC Mic., BMC Microbiology; Exp. Derm., Experimental Dermatology and Curr. Genet., Current Genetics; SD, Standard Deviation of the impact factor (error bars). Ministry monopolize this evaluation and pressure programs by the distribution of funding resources and departmental fellowships conditioned to adherence to a journal classification system called “Qualis” which is a discretization of the continuous distribution of journals ranking by their impact factors (Greenwood, 2007). In several institutions the graduate committee authorizes professors to act as thesis advisors only if in a certain period (e.g., 4 years) they publish at least one paper in a journal classified as “Qualis A2.” This classification has seven categories with decreasing impact factor ranges (A1, A2, B1,
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دوره 4 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2013