Editorial: The evaluation of Impact Factor in the scientific publication of criminal procedure

Abstract

Generally and increasingly, governments decide to implement policy measures aimed at promoting and rewarding excellence in scientific research. This is the purpose of national research evaluation exercises, typically based on the analysis of the quality of the best research results. However, a different approach to the analysis and the intervention is based on the measure of the productivity of each researcher, the overall impact of their scientific publications over a given period. The present editorial analyzes, firstly, the convergence of the two approaches; secondly, it questions whether and to what extent the most productive researchers always obtain the greatest number of citations; thirdly, what is the role of scientific publishing in relation to the impact factor.

Keywords

• Editorial
• editoração científica
• fator de impacto
• critérios avaliativos
• direito processual penal.