Profile of Brazilian journals kept by IES and Qualis system: analysis of titles indexed in Web of Science and Scopus

• Autor(a) principal: Quartiero, Emanoel
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Silva, Edna Lúcia da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: InCID
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/incid/article/view/96733
• topic: Comunicação científica; Periódicos científicos brasileiros; Instituições de Ensino Superior; Qualis; Scientific communication; Brazilian scientific journals; Higher Education Institutions; Qualis

Seeks to know characteristics of the brazilian scientific journals kept by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus bases and make an analysis of the Qualis evaluation system from that population. For this study sought to identify these publications; to check the publisher HEIs and the regions of the found publications; and to raise aspects of the journals, which are: field of knowledge, language, frequency, type of access and publishing platform; identify the strata assigned by Qualis system to publications and the criteria used for classification; and finally establish the relationship between Qualis evaluation and the three-year evaluation of graduate programs. The data was collected from the web pages of the journals, the UlrichsWeb Directory and the Regulatory System of Higher Education (e-MEC) from the Ministry of Education. 140 titles were identified indexed in the WoS and/or Scopus. The data show that the universities such as HEIs are responsible for most of the journals and the regions that contain most of these publications are the southeast and south of Brazil. The research detects the open access condition of the titles, it finds that the predominant fields of knowledge are the Social Sciences (26 titles), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (25 titles) and Medicine (15 titles). Among the results obtained from the study of Qualis classification are the scope of journals classified in the strata B1 and A2 and on the criteria of the areas of knowledge, there has been increased adoption of numerical impact indicators as Impact Factor and indexing databases such frequent requirements assigning strata.