New Qualis periodics

In 2018, the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) initiated actions to improve the assessment instruments, with the chief goal to increase the focus on the quality of training of PhD’s and MSc’s, and on the excellence of Brazilian postgraduate studies. This considered recommendations (focused on contributions from consulted entities) indicated by the report of the Special Monitoring Committee of the National Postgraduate Plan (PNPG 2011-2020).

Thus, CAPES implemented the improvement of the postgraduate evaluation process; evaluation of intellectual production; and elucidated the Qualis Periódicos.

Among the initiatives to improve the evaluation process, the new proposal for Qualis Periódicos is highlighted. It was observed that the evaluation of knowledge production in the fields adopted differentiated criteria for the classification of scientific production. This often resulted in distortions, since the same journal could be classified into completely different strata between areas.

The new methodology sought more objective criteria, which allow greater comparability between assessment areas, also paying attention to internationalization. The proposal was based on four principles: 1) Each journal will receive only one classification,

How to cite: Moraes SLC. New Qualis periodics. J Braz Coll Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2021 Jan-Apr;7(1):4-5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14436/2358-2782.7.1.004-005.edt

even if it has been informed by programs linked to more than one evaluation area; 2) The classification will be given by a “mother area”; 3) Qualis reference: the new methodology proposes a classification provided by the combined use of bibliometric indicators and a mathematical model; and 4) bibliometric indicators that are basically those that consider the number of citations of the journal within three bases: Scopus (CiteScore), Web of Science (Impact Factor) and Google Scholar (h5 index).

In summary, the reference stratum was calculated using equal intervals (12.5%) of the final percentile, resulting in the following 8 classes: strata A1 (highest stratum, with minimum value of 87.5%), A2, A3 and A4 and also the strata B1, B2, B3 and B4 (the 8th stratum, with value lower than 12.5%).

We shall continue united and focused on the continuous growth of our strong journal!

Editor-in-chief of JBCOMS Journal of the Brazilian College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

1. Ofício nº 6/2019 - CGAP/DAV/CAPES (16 de julho de 2019). 2. Portaria CAPES nº 8, de 22 de janeiro de 2020. Diário

Oficial [da] República Federativa do Brasil de 23 janeiro de 2020; Seção 2, p. 30.