The efforts of Brazilian Journal of Dentistry in the dissemination of scientific production

Abstract

Although renowned scientific journals have been consistently producing scientific knowledge in the last ten years, and thus increasing the production and visibility of Brazilian scientific production worldwide, other journals have been losing prestige when evaluated by databases that increasingly establish more rigid criteria and requirements, which are inconsistent with the research, creation and production of scientific texts in the country. This somehow polarizes and distances professors, researchers, graduate students of several areas, since they know that their production needs to be approved by renowned US and European journals or European to be internationally recognized, since they need to use more complex methodologies to be approved by international journals that have the power to choose what is going to be researched and published. According to Kimura (2010),¹ while our journals increasingly achieves international recognition, the national scenario heads to the opposite direction. The Brazilian scientific production is almost entirely derived from Postgraduate Programs (PPG), subordinated to the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes), a public foundation of the Brazilian Ministry of Education. One of the main items considered in the assessment of a PPG in all areas in our country is the intellectual production of Master’s supervisor and students. Qualis was created by Capes to “qualify the scientific journal in which the article was published” and thus to measure the quality of the scientific production based on Capes’ assessment areas.