Publication in High Impact Factor Journals: When Does It Expire?
| Autor | de Farias, Salomao Alencar |
| Cargo | Editorial |
Knowledge is dynamic and evolves over the time, but can we establish a previous time span for its relevance? Let's say four years? If one publishes an article in a journal in the year of 2017, will it lose its academic relevance by the end of 2020? Well, of course things do not happen this way in the academic production. It is possible to still find articles that were published about 20 years ago, and its content can be still relevant. It is common to find in different researchers in the area of management, articles that are known as a landmark in their areas of study. Because of that one article, a researcher will be recognized by peers in a specific field of the administration theory over the years, due to the contribution for the development knowledge in that area. If this is true, the logic would be to center efforts in research and publication with high potential for creating a buzz in the academia. Not everything is logic, even though in the applied Social Sciences. In Brazil, we are facing what some calls, academic productivism: the more articles one publishes, the best. Instead of concentrating on publishing one sound article, let's say once a year, some researchers are just publishing more and more, missing articles' quality. I will not go in that arena in this editorial, instead, I am going to focus on the topic of articles expiration date and the evaluation of our management graduate programs in Brazil, and the possible impact on Brazilian journals. For those outside Brazil, our business graduate programs and journals are accredited and evaluated by CAPES, a governmental high education agency, that every 4 years, attributes grades in different criteria of evaluation to Ph.D. and Master programs, that varies from 3 to 7 to be accredited and receive funds from the government. The best graduate programs are the ones with a grade of 7. One important part of this evaluation is related to the publication of professors that constitute the body of a specific program. For that, the same agency qualifies the journals in strata from C to A, being A2 and A1 the best journals. For instance, in our field we do not have any Brazilian management Journal evaluated as A1. Only periodicals outside Brazil with better impact factors are classified as A1. So far, it seems that none Brazilian journal in the management field is good enough to get an A1, according to the evaluation system established by CAPES. The number of articles that are published...
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