Clinical trials in Brazilian journals of ophthalmology: where we are

A questão do idioma nas Revistas Oftalmológicas Brasileiras

“…In this issue of Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia (ABO), Lira et al, studied the quality of Ophthalmological Brazilian Journals by means of the number of citations in sources indexed at Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) after two years of publication (Impact Factor ® ) and the quality of reporting according the Consolidated Standards for Reporting Trials (CONSORT) (1,2) . Their work is excellent in pointing out that well quality papers written in English are well more cited (and probably read more often) than their counterparts.…”