SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS IN HISTORY: brazilian author's publication and titles Qualis A1

The publication of scientific articles is essential for the communication of science in all areas of knowledge. This article studies the periodicals of History classified as Qualis Al in the period 2013-2016 and the indexed titles in Web of Science - WoS in which Brazilian authors published in the same period. The general objective is to analyze Qualis Al titles and the behavior of publication in qualified journals of the Brazilian authors. The specific objectives are: a) to describe the editorial characteristics of Al stratum periodicals in the History of Qualis area; b) to indicate the type of access of the stratum Al periodicals in the History area of Qualis; c) examine the titles of journals with the highest number of articles with at least one Brazilian author indexed in the Web of Science (WoS). The methodology is exploratory, documentary and descriptive research. The Qualis 2013-2016 website was consulted and Web of Science was searched using the strategy (CU = Brazil or Brazil) AND (SU = History). It concludes that in the area of History most of the 52 titles registered as Qualis Al are Brazilian (35%) and edited by universities (23%), followed by English titles with 29% edited mostly by commercial companies (19%). The type of access of most titles is open without charge to authors, the dominant model in Brazil, English, and US titles are edited by commercial companies and most are subscription with the option of open access with rates, the option more common in these countries in all areas of knowledge. The presence of a large number of Brazilian titles classified as Al is characteristic of the area of History and other areas of Human Sciences. From a total of 1586 articles published with at least one author with Brazilian institutional bond in indexed titles in the WoS in the period from 2013 to 2016 was identified a significant concentration in Brazilian periodicals (78%), followed by English titles (3%) and Spanish ( 3%). The works are distributed in 144 periodicals of 87 publishers, the majority of the Brazilian publishers has only one title and many articles and the commercial publishers several titles with few articles each.