Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry with IF of 1.856, far from the

he creation of a number of bibliometric indices to assess the scientific production, extremely important fact in an attempt to measure and value the hard work of scientists, separating the chaff from the wheat, has been undermined in recent times. The search for studies published in journals with higher impact, especially according to the criteria of the Impact Factor (IF) adopted and published by the ISI Journal Citation Report (JCR), the index most used as a parameter, eventually caused an imbalance, often distorting the basic purpose of making public the results of research and its benefits. In Brazil, Qualis, whose criteria for classification of scientific journals, along with the assessment of postgraduation programs, leads the researchers to publish their studies in journals with high IFs. Most of them from abroad, since the CAPES requires that the researchers have at least one publication in journals at the highest level (A1) whose impact is close to 4.00. Only way to maintain or improve their personal position and the institution to which they are bound. The Brazilian journal with the highest rate is now th