Guest editorial

Abstract

Philosophical Transactions (which was released on March 6, in that same year, and now is entitled Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)-are still being published, as demonstrated in a beautiful text written by Carlos Fioravanti, in the first issue of Revista FAPESP this year (1). Our story is much more recent, as is our profession. Approximately two decades ago, the Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia (SBFa) started an ambitious and brave project: to publish a scientific journal of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology. With time, competent and generous leaders turned this initiative into a success, and transformed this journal into the most important repository of Brazilian papers in the field of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology. When Fernanda Dreux became the scientific editor of the Journal from the Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia, in 2006, it was already a famous and consolidated publication. The indexation in SciELO was a natural result. In the past years, when Mara Behlau joined this team, in 2010, thanks to the efforts made to expand the indexation and different conjunctures, in two years SBFa was responsible for publishing two of the most relevant journals in Brazilian Speech Language Pathology and Audiology: the magazine of the Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia and the SBFa Journal. One very significant fact is that, in 2011, the magazine of the Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia was the SciELO journal (not MEDLINE) with the highest impact factor, and that fact was mentioned in many editorial groups. The essential open access and the on-line availability of the publication provided all speech language pathologists who speak Portuguese with fast, efficient and qualified updates. The several graduate programs began considering the publication in the magazine as their first choice. The process involving the development of authors, reviewers and editing itself can be proven by merely comparing the first and the more recent issues. The search for internationalization and the need to improve the editorial systems led to other changes, such as the transfer of one of the publications to the Brazilian Academy of Audiology (ABA) and the professionalization of editorial processes (according to SciELO's requirements). By using that strategy, the field of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology was empowered and all reviewers and editors involved in the process went through an interesting process of maturity, by defining different editorial lines and targets for the texts addressed to both publications. Young authors became reviewers, experienced professors continued to contribute and some important international participations were carried out. The work of editors, reviewers and writers has never been paid for, and has always showed the quality of our science and of the people who are part of our profession. The relevance of indexations is related to the possibility of international exchange of information and experience, as well as the bilingual publication of CoDAS. Indexatio...