Qualis (CAPES)

{{Short description|System qualifying academic journals}} {{other uses|Qualis (disambiguation)}} {{Multiple issues| {{notability|date=May 2015}} {{more footnotes|date=February 2015}} }}

'''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.

Qualis has the task to classify and evaluate the academic means used on the  production of scientific publications of post-graduate 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 updated every four years 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") occur in a 1–8 scale (A1, the highest; A2; B1; B2; B3; B4; B5; C — not listed).<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo|title=Classification of journals in the QUALIS System of CAPES – Urgent need of changing the criteria!|journal=Clinics (Sao Paulo)|date=Feb 2010|volume=65|pages=121–123|doi=10.1590/S1807-59322010000200001|issn=1807-5932|pmc=2827696|pmid=20186293|issue=2}}</ref>

==See also== * Lattes Platform * Journal ranking by country

== References == {{Reflist}}

== 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. [https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFH6o611gC&q=brazil&pg=PA131] * 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. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3p7_AwAAQBAJ&q=latin+american&pg=PA379] * 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 * {{cite journal | last1 = Ferreira | first1 = R.C. | last2 = Antoneli | first2 = F. | last3 = Briones | first3 = M. R. S. | year = 2013| title = The hidden factors in impact factors: a perspective from Brazilian science | journal = Front Genet | volume = 4| page = 130 | doi = 10.3389/fgene.2013.00130 | pmid = 23874351 | pmc = 3708068 | doi-access = free }}

== External links == * {{Official website|http://qualis.capes.gov.br/webqualis/|''WebQualis'' (CAPES)}} {{in lang|pt}}

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