Evaluation criteria in Tourism and its effects on the researchers’ publication profile

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the influence of the evaluation criteria in the publishing profile of the Tourism researchers. -- Methodology: Analysis of the journal evaluation criteria of Administration, Accounting and Tourism area, carried out by CAPES, based on the area documents and the list of classified journals; and of the publishing profile, through Lattes curricula of the researchers of the Tourism postgraduate programs. -- Results: The results show that the journal evaluation criteria applied by Administration, Accounting and Tourism increases its dependency of JCR Impact Factor between the triennia analyzed. The definition of criteria based in this indicator reinforces the hegemony of major for-profit publishers, besides making journals of Administration predominate in the higher strata. The publishing profile of Tourism researchers showed that: 61.2 % of their production occurs in periodicals of the area itself; being about 2/3 of this in domestic journals; besides being concentrated between strata A2 to B3; and when publishing in foreign journals the Spanish language is prevalent, followed by Portuguese. They begin to publish in Administration and Accounting periodicals from 2013, predominating the English language; a first publication in stratum A1 occurs in a journal of the Administration area, in the year 2014.

Keywords

• Scientific evaluation
• Scientific research 
• Tourism and leisure
• Periodical evaluation
• Bibliographical production
• Scientific productivity
• Researchers