As editors of the Brazilian journal Reports in Public Health and signatories to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, we wish to point out that there are only four Brazilian journals among the total of 66 banned from Thomson Reuters' Journal Citation Reports (see go.nature.com/ufgbrn and Nature 500, 510–511; 2013).

According to Brazil's open-access portal SciELO, there are more than 300 high-quality Brazilian scientific journals; these are also indexed in the main global bibliographical databases in their respective areas. They each contribute to the development of science worldwide.

This context should have been emphasized in your report, to avoid tainting the reputation of these many respected Brazilian journals by implication.