The time has come for the quality journals of Brazil | SciELO in Perspective

"On the article, we highlight three forces or movements that seek to minimize the effects of journal rankings and propose a forth one. The first comes from the research communities and editors of the Social Sciences and Humanities that have long questioned the applicability in their research of metrics based exclusively on citations. The second is made up by the various statements by different academic groups about the inconvenience of using citation-based journals rankings as indicators to rank all the research published in those journals. The argument here is very well known – more than half of the citations received by journals come from less than half of the articles, that is, most articles benefit from the impact of a minority that concentrates the citations received. The third is the Open Access movement that advocates the availability of research on the Web with no access barriers, which gains more strength with the advancement of open science."