The editor-in-chief of the Brazilian Political Science Review, Adrian Gurza Lavalle, was one of the interviewees to the newspaper report “Cuts reduce research grants and harm scientific publications”, published by the Brazilian newspaper “Folha de S. Paulo”.
In the article, Lavalle highlights that the requirement made by CNPq for journals to be indexed in Scielo makes it difficult for publications to access fundings of the institution. “The overwhelming majority of periodicals in the country are not in the Scielo database. They are departmental [journals] published in precarious situations”, he said. “Public funding has never helped these journals. There is no universal journal policy in Brazil”, he completed.

Acesse aqui: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ciencia/2022/01/cortes-diminuem-bolsas-de-pesquisa-e-prejudicam-publicacoes-cientificas.shtml