"Brazilian science is steadily improving in quality and quantity..."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24067701

Nature. 2013 Sep 26;501(7468):492. doi: 10.1038/501492b.

Citations: Ethical ways to grow impact.

Loyola RD, Diniz Filho JA.

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• Brazilian citation scheme outed. [Nature. 2013]

"Brazilian science is steadily improving in quality and quantity, thanks in part to strong support from two national funding agencies, the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development and the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (R. D. Loyola et al.Trends Ecol. Evol. 27, 585; 2012).

These agencies have set up committees of researchers from different fields to determine how impact factors can be used effectively to evaluate graduate programmes and to rank journals. In the process, they have standardized mean impact factors to take into account impact-factor variations between subdisciplines, thereby rendering comparisons between journals more meaningful."