Federal University of Pará
Postgraduate Program in Neuroscience and Cell Biology
Publication and payment of article publication fees.
Publishing articles is one of the outcomes of a researcher's work. And in the activities of people involved in postgraduate programs, both faculty and students, article publication is one of the metrics used to evaluate the quality of the work done. The article publication process can have different models regarding costs. Among the most common are those in which authors do not pay for the publication process and the article is not openly available to readers. The cost of publication is paid by the readers. Only readers who pay some type of subscription to the portal or journal will have access to these articles. Another model is known as Open Access, in which the authors of the articles must pay for publication and access to the article is freely available to readers.
The Brazilian federal government, through CAPES, has made agreements with major publishers to facilitate the payment of publication fees for articles by Brazilian researchers. Below is information on the agreements made by CAPES to date, to guide which journals are eligible for payment of publication fees, known as APCs, for articles.
How will publishers know which Brazilian authors are covered by the agreements with CAPES?
During the CAPES census in 2026, all faculty and students in graduate programs were asked to update a series of registration data with CAPES, including their ORCID ( Open Researcher and Contributor ID ). During the submission process, the corresponding author is asked to include their ORCID in the submitted forms, and they will automatically be identified as covered by the agreement. If the researcher has doubts about whether their data is correctly registered with CAPES, they should go to https://meusdados.capes.gov.br/ , in the identifiers section, and verify that their ORCID is correctly registered. For researchers who do not yet have an ORCID, they should go to https://info.orcid.org .
What agreements has CAPES made so far?
Below is information about each of the agreements signed by CAPES to date.
Agreement
CAPES consortium - Springer Nature
The agreement covers approximately 1,763 different hybrid journals. It covers reading and payment of article publication fees. These journals are known as hybrid journals, meaning they can publish articles in a closed model, where access is restricted only to subscribers of the publisher, or they can publish articles openly upon payment of the publication fee by CAPES.
The list of eligible journals under this agreement can be found here .
CAPES Consortium Agreement - Elsevier
The agreement covers approximately 1619 different hybrid journals. Elsevier provides a search engine for journal names in the various fields of knowledge covered by the CAPES agreement. To access the search engine, click here .
CAPES consortium agreement - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
The agreement covers approximately 73 different journals. The list of journals covered by the agreement can be accessed here .
CAPES consortium agreement - Royal Society Publishing (RSP)
The agreement covers 10 different journals. The list of journals covered by the agreement can be accessed here .
CAPES consortium agreement - Wiley
The agreement covers 1296 different hybrid journals. The list of journals covered by the agreement can be accessed here.
CAPES consortium agreement - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
The agreement covers dozens of the publisher's periodicals. The list of periodicals covered by the agreement can be accessed here.
CAPES consortium agreement - American Chemical Society (ACS)
The agreement covers dozens of the publisher's magazines. For a list of periodicals covered by the agreement, click here.
For more information on CAPES' transformative agreements with scientific publishers, visit the CAPES page on these agreements by clicking here .
The H index
What is the H-index?
The h-index is a bibliometric indicator used to simultaneously measure a researcher's productivity and scientific impact. It was proposed in 2005 by physicist Jorge E. Hirsch with the aim of creating a metric that combined the quantity of publications and the number of citations received by scientific works.
How is the H-index calculated?
The calculation is performed by ordering an author's articles by the number of citations, from highest to lowest. The H-index corresponds to the point at which the article number is equal to or less than the number of citations it has received.
What is the importance of the H-index?
The H-index is widely used by universities, funding agencies, and research institutions to assess the relevance of researchers' scientific output. Its main advantage is balancing two important aspects: the quantity of publications and the impact of these publications on the scientific community.
What are the limitations of the H-index?
Despite its usefulness, the H-index should not be used in isolation. It can vary depending on the field of knowledge, the researcher's career length, and the database used (such as Scopus, Web of Science, or Google Scholar). Furthermore, it does not consider qualitative aspects of the research or differences between scientific disciplines.
What is the H-index?
The h-index is a bibliometric indicator used to simultaneously measure a researcher's productivity and scientific impact. It was proposed in 2005 by physicist Jorge E. Hirsch with the aim of creating a metric that combined the quantity of publications and the number of citations received by scientific works.
How is the H-index calculated?
The calculation is performed by ordering an author's articles by the number of citations, from highest to lowest. The H-index corresponds to the point at which the article number is equal to or less than the number of citations it has received.
What is the importance of the H-index?
The H-index is widely used by universities, funding agencies, and research institutions to assess the relevance of researchers' scientific output. Its main advantage is balancing two important aspects: the quantity of publications and the impact of these publications on the scientific community.
What are the limitations of the H-index?
Despite its usefulness, the H-index should not be used in isolation. It can vary depending on the field of knowledge, the researcher's career length, and the database used (such as Scopus, Web of Science, or Google Scholar). Furthermore, it does not consider qualitative aspects of the research or differences between scientific disciplines.
The H index
What is the H-index?
The h-index is a bibliometric indicator used to simultaneously measure a researcher's productivity and scientific impact. It was proposed in 2005 by physicist Jorge E. Hirsch with the aim of creating a metric that combined the quantity of publications and the number of citations received by scientific works.
How is the H-index calculated?
The calculation is performed by ordering an author's articles by the number of citations, from highest to lowest. The H-index corresponds to the point at which the article number is equal to or less than the number of citations it has received.
What is the importance of the H-index?
The H-index is widely used by universities, funding agencies, and research institutions to assess the relevance of researchers' scientific output. Its main advantage is balancing two important aspects: the quantity of publications and the impact of these publications on the scientific community.
What are the limitations of the H-index?
Despite its usefulness, the H-index should not be used in isolation. It can vary depending on the field of knowledge, the researcher's career length, and the database used (such as Scopus, Web of Science, or Google Scholar). Furthermore, it does not consider qualitative aspects of the research or differences between scientific disciplines.
And how does CAPES intend to use the H-index in the four-year evaluation of graduate programs in Brazil?
CAPES does not evaluate graduate programs exclusively using the H-index, but the indicator can be used as a complementary metric to analyze the impact of the scientific output of faculty and programs.
In its four-year evaluation of graduate programs, CAPES considers a broad set of dimensions, including intellectual output, faculty qualifications, student and graduate profiles, social impact, and the program's internationalization.