“…In 1998 the Brazilian agency responsible for establishing criteria for evaluating the performance of higher education institutions (CAPES) launched a journal ranking system called "QUALIS", which classified journals according to their distribution (local, national or international) and their quality within subject areas (A, B and C) (Andrade & Galembeck, 2009). In 2009 this system was replaced by a new QUALIS (currently in use), which uses a complicated suit of criteria (differing among subject areas) to group journals into eight discrete categories (A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 and C) (Andrade & Galembeck, 2009;Andriolo et al, 2010). Criteria include different impact factor metrics, the proportion of journals in each category, the relevance or prestige of journals within subject areas, the number of issues published per year, the publishers, the need to support certain Brazilian journals, among others (a full explanation of the criteria employed by each subject area is available in Portuguese at: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/ coleta/veiculoPublicacaoQualis/listaConsultaGeralPeriodicos.jsf).…”