Ten-year growth in the scientific production of Brazilian Psychiatry: the impact of the new evaluation policies

Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria

Jerônimo Gerolin²  Rodrigo A. Bressan²  Ricardo Pietrobon¹  Jair De Jesus Mari² 

[1],Universidade Federal de São PauloSão Paulo SP ,Brasil

关键词: Bibliometrics;    Developing countries;    Psychiatry;    Psychiatry;    Publishing;    Publishing;    Mental health;    Bibliometria;    Países em desenvolvimento;    Psiquiatria;    Psiquiatria;    Editoração;    Editoração;    Saúde mental;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1516-44462010000100004

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVE: Developed by the Ministry of Education, the Qualis evaluation criteria have strongly impacted the scientific production of Post-Graduation Programs. A new set of more stringent criteria has been proposed for Qualis. Our aim was to evaluate the impact of the new Qualis criteria on the scientific production of Post-Graduation Programs in psychiatry over the last 10 years. METHOD:We extracted data from annual reports published between 1998 and 2008, and compared performance measured in terms of the old Qualis rating criteria and the new set of criteria. RESULTS: There was a 25% increase in the number of Information Science Institute-indexed articles in the second five-year period, which rose from 1,213 to 1,518. While, according to the old Qualis criteria, 84% of the Information Science Institute production would have been classified as highly-rated (IF > 1), only 17% of the papers were classified as highly-rated (A1) according to the new Qualis rating criteria. Most papers (65%) were assigned to intermediate categories (B1 and B2) with an IF < 2.29. DISCUSSION:All psychiatric Post-Graduation Programs have increased their production, but by favoring quality over quantity, the new rules have proved to be more useful for discriminating among the scientific production.

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