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The paper presents a literature review on the use of citations for journal evaluation. Considering that Brazilian CAPES iscurrently in the process of reformulating its evaluation policies and instruments and that numerous criticisms of Qualishave been made by researchers and managers over the years, we aim to discuss journal evaluation considering the role ofcitations in scientific practice and the bibliometric indicators derived from them, especially Impact Factor, CiteScore and hIndex from Google. The origins and methodology employed to calculate the three indicators are presented, in addition to theformula used by CAPES for journals evaluation. It concludes that citation indicators for science evaluation are supported byconcepts and methodologies about citation practices developed over the years, but that they should be employed carefullyand consciously. Keywords: Journal evaluation. Citation. Impact indicators. Qualis.@en
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