Dear all,
Could you please tell me the countries where the journal quartiles SJR/JCR are used for the state system for research evaluation (except for Russia)?
Best,
Dmitry
Hello
If you see the reports you can find it yourself
Ingrid García
Sri Lanka uses Impact Factor values published in JCR to evaluate research performance. However, my personal opinion is that we should not use IF as a measure of research performance/significance of individuals or articles since it is not an article level measure.
Manjula Wijewickrema thank you very much for your answer, that helps. Is there any document to refer?
Dear Dmitry, please check the following sites. I hope that you could find an already published circular or any other official documentation for your information.
https://www.ugc.ac.lk
http://www.mostr.gov.lk/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=132:the-presidential-awards-for-scientific-publications-organized-by-the-national-research-council-nrc-under-the-ministry-of-science&catid=9&Itemid=107&lang=en
http://www.nsf.ac.lk/
Brazil does. It has agreements with Clarivate through Capes in order to have this information available to Brazilian Universities. This is used to the national evaluation of the quality of publications and journals within the National Postgraduate System. The criteria differs according to subject area, but JCR is considered in the definition of the Brazilian parameter which is called Qualis. This article can help you to understand the system in Brazil: https://files.cercomp.ufg.br/weby/up/26/o/artigo_10_coisas.pdf
Direct information can also be found here: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/index.jsf
Saddly all of it is in Portuguese and a bit confusing even for me.
I translate part of the mentioned article to you, as it might help:
"Qualifying Criteria for Publications
As noted above, each evaluation area is free to establish its own classification criteria provided that the common rules of construction of Qualis be accomplished. Although the indicators used by the different committees vary, 31 (65%) evaluation areas comprised in the large Exact and Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, Health Sciences, Agricultural Sciences and Multidisciplinary Sciences use criteria that combine aspects of circulation, evaluated by means of the indexation bases to which the journals belong, and aspects related to bibliometric impacts, evaluated by means of one or more indicators obtained from one or more sources of information.
The most used bibliometric data sources are JCR (Journal Current Report), Scopus and SciELO. Each one of them provides slightly different indicators and different values for equivalent indicators because they have in their base a variable number of journals. The broadest base is Scopus, therefore, the indicators calculated by it tend to be higher than in the other two. The smallest is SciELO, and the impact factors measured in this base will all be smaller than in the other two. JCR has a slightly smaller base than Scopus and, in addition, it adopts an unclear and controversial definition of what it considers citationable documents, thus being able to underestimate or overestimate the impact factor (BARRETO, 2013).
The most commonly used indicators are the impact factor, the citations per cited document and the "h" index. Some areas still use the average life or the "immediacy" factor to weigh the impact measures. The combination of sources and indicators is a way to balance the characteristics and weaknesses of each of them in isolation. Fifteen (31%) evaluation areas included in the major areas of Arts and Letters, Applied Social Sciences and Humanities use a set of formal criteria (such as periodicity, regularity, diverse editorial staff, peer review, distribution, indexation) and a "ranking" established by the evaluation committees on the relevance of each journal to the field"
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