In a report by Clarivate Analytics for the Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher-Level-Education Personnel (CAPES) about the Brazilian research productivity between 2013 and 2018, Brazil ranked 13th (250 680 publications) among countries with the highest research productivity, corresponding to 11% and 16% of the first ranked countries, United States and China, respectively. 1,2 In that period, the publications in Brazil increased by 30%, twice the global mean, 2 with over 50 000 articles published in 2018 only. A good example of that increase has been described in the study analyzing the number of papers published in Nature and Science from the