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Correspondence
Nature 424, 723 (14 August 2003) | doi:10.1038/424723b
Impact factors: just part of a research treadmill
Leopoldo de Meis1, Maria Scarlet do Carmo1 & Carla de Meis2
- Departamento de Bioquímica Médica, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-590, Brasil
- Instituto de Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 21941 590, Brasil
In Brazil, scientists need to publish more every year to obtain scarce funds, leading to an exaggerated degree of competitiveness and promoting a cultural distortion where scientometrics prevails over knowledge (as discussed by P. A.
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