Change the QUALIS criteria!

Classification of journals in the QUALIS System of CAPES – URGENT need of changing the criteria!

Due to its concern about the future of Brazilian scientific journals after new criteria were adopted by the QUA-LIS system of CAPES (Brazilian Federal Agency for the Improvement of Higher Education), the Brazilian Medical Association (Associação Médica Brasileira-AMB) has held several meetings at its headquarters in São Paulo to discuss this matter. Editors of the main Brazilian medical journal...

Classification of journals in the QUALIS System of CAPES: the urgent need for changing the criteria.

Classification of periodicals in the CAPES QUALIS system: changes to the criteria are URGENTLY needed!

We start another year with this issue of the RBO, which now contains a greater number of studies. This was decided by the Editorial Board and the new directorate of the SBOT, in view of the ever greater number of studies sent for publication: instead of more issues, a journal with a greater number of studies. The Editorial Board has been renewed through the entry of Professors Akira Ishida, Hel...

Qualis Periodic Evaluation: Analysis of Qualis Upgrade in Medicine Iii.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the preliminary results related to journals up-grade that was used by Medicine III, through opportunity offered by Capes to all agency areas programs. METHODS Were used area document of Medicine I, II and III, besides other relevant topics available online at Capes site, between 2009 and 2013. The research was focused to answer two questions: 1) the stratification of Qua...

A new QUALIS for the Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics

In the most recent QUALIS, published at the end of 2016, Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics (DPJO) was upgraded from B3 to B2 stratum by the journals evaluation committee of CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel), a foundation of the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC). That was great news to the main orthodontic scientific journal in Latin America. QUALIS-CA...