We reviewed original articles in the field of pulmonary medicine that had been recently published in 12 Brazilian journals-general or specialty journals-excluding the Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology. All were journals indexed for the Institute for Scientific Information Web of Knowledge. The selection of articles was based on the "continuously variable rating" concept. We have organized the articles by category.Keywords: Pulmonary medicine; Medical oncology; Research; Infectious disease medicine. ResumoRevisamos estudos originais no campo da pneumologia que foram recentemente publicados em 12 publicações gerais ou de especialidades -que não o Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia -indexadas no Institute for Scientific Information Web of Knowledge. A seleção dos artigos foi baseada no conceito de continuously variable rating, e os artigos foram classificados em categorias.