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
The Ministry of Education (Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Ministério da Educação''), also known as MEC, an initialism derived from its former name Ministry of Education and Culture (Portuguese: ''Ministério da Educação e Cultura''), is a ...
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Qualis has the task to classify and evaluate the academic means used on the production of scientific publications of
post-graduate
Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate ( bachelor's) degree.
The organization and stru ...
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
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
In geology and related fields, a stratum ( : strata) is a layer of rock or sediment characterized by certain lithologic properties or attributes that distinguish it from adjacent layers from which it is separated by visible surfaces known as ei ...
") occur in a 1–8 scale (A1, the highest; A2; B1; B2; B3; B4; B5; C — not listed).
See also
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Lattes Platform
The Lattes Platform is an information system (integrated database, web-based query interface, etc.) maintained by the Brazilian federal government to manage information on science, technology, and innovation related to individual researches and ins ...
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Journal ranking by country
Journal ranking is widely used in academic circles in the evaluation of an academic journal's impact and quality. Journal rankings are intended to reflect the place of a journal within its field, the relative difficulty of being published in that ...
References
Further reading
* 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
* 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
* 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
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External links
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Government agencies of Brazil
Higher education in Brazil
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Databases in Brazil
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