Quality assessment of scientific papers: Excellence or legitimization of research practices?

• Autor(a) principal: Vilela, Bruno
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Cavalcanti, Joyce, Freitas, Kenyth, Carrieri, Alexandre
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: BBR. Brazilian Business Review (English edition. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://www.bbronline.com.br/index.php/bbr/article/view/679
• topic: Institutional isomorphism; Efficiency; Scientific publications; Legitimacy; Isomorfismo institucional; Eficiência; Publicações científicas; Legitimidade

This study aims to analyze the relative efficiency of graduate programs in terms of the quality of their scientific publications in journals. To this end, we applied Data Envelopment Analysis to the fields of Public and Business Administration, Accounting, and Tourism, using data from the 2017 Quadrennial Evaluation developed by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior [“Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel”, CAPES]. The results suggest that efficient graduate programs are concentrated in the center-south axis of Brazil, in the areas of Administration and Accounting. Despite the overall publishing strategy in journals of various ranks (strata), efficient graduate programs allocate their efficiency primarily to Qualis A1 journals, A1 being the excellence rating in the CAPES scale. We conclude that legitimized research practices pressure graduate programs to improve the quality of their publications while threatening the survival of programs that fail to conform to the assessment rules.