In the strategic management plan of the Federal University of Viçosa, in line with its MISSION, Research and Graduate policies were defined, that is, institutional support for quality scientific research, valorization of Stricto Sensu graduate programs as highly qualified human resources trainers and scientific initiation programs as trainers of future researchers, academic-administrative modernization and rationalization and training of UFV professors at doctoral and post-doctoral levels.

Institutional GOALS include increasing quality, efficiency and competitiveness, in addition to expanding UFV's sphere of influence as a trainer of human resources.

Following these GOALS, the Graduate Program in Forest Science has been concerned with evolving every year, not only in quantity, but also in quality, publishing in journals with a high impact factor, with CAPES/QUALIS A1, A2 classifications. and B1 . 

In the four-year period from 2017 to 2020, 34 of the 37 permanent professors had publications, which represents 91.89% of professors. A total of 1073 publications were published during the four-year period, 430 of which were in national periodicals ,  555 in international periodicals ,  18 books  and  70 book chapters .

According to the  Scopus platform , we also obtained a total of  12,045 citations  in this period, which represents the quality of the publications, serving as a reference for other research.