Comparison between two methods deriving SFR from rest-frame IR, both applied to 509 galaxies at z <  1.8 in the COSMOS-CANDELS area (red dots). The method used in the present work follows Ilbert et al. (2015) and is summarized in Sect. 3.2 (see Eq. 1). The SFR_UVIR estimates on the y axis are described in Barro et al. (2019). A solid line shows the 1:1 relationship. The inset in the top-left corner shows a histogram of the difference between Barro et al. (labeled SFR_y) and our estimates (SFR_x), and a vertical dashed line that marks the median offset at −0.03 dex.