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

Authors

  • Emanoel Quartiero
  • Edna Lúcia da Silva Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-2075.v7i2p156-181

Keywords:

Scientific communication, Brazilian scientific journals, Higher Education Institutions, Qualis

Abstract

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.

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Author Biographies

  • Emanoel Quartiero

    Bacharel em Biblioteconomia pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. E-mail: emanoel.quartiero@grad.ufsc.br

  • Edna Lúcia da Silva, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
    Doutora em Ciência da Informação pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ/IBICT). Professora Associada ao Departamanto de Ciência da Informação da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. E-mail: edna.l.s@ufsc.br

Published

2016-10-07

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How to Cite

QUARTIERO, Emanoel; SILVA, Edna Lúcia da. Profile of Brazilian journals kept by IES and Qualis system: analysis of titles indexed in Web of Science and Scopus. InCID: Revista de Ciência da Informação e Documentação, Ribeirão Preto, Brasil, v. 7, n. 2, p. 156–181, 2016. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2178-2075.v7i2p156-181. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.usp.br/incid/article/view/96733.. Acesso em: 18 jun. 2024.