Rumo ao nosso merecido "A" Qualis-Capes

Abstract

Thanks to the authors' confidence to delegate the RBF the mission to disseminate to the scientific community theirs scientific contributions, it has been received up to September 2010, 197 articles, together with the collaboration of our magnificent board of advisors (960) from all Brazilian states and several from renowned international institutions, plus the support of the Councils, Commissions, SBF Board, team of direct advisors and employees, our journal has won in the recent evaluation of QUALIS-CAPES, the B1 concept. We're on the top of the classification and next to the best Brazilian journals in the Agricultural Science Area. The RBF was indexed in the ISI since 2007, receiving in September 2010 the first evaluation from the year 2009, which considered some performance parameters of the RBF Magazine from the last two years, i.e. 2008 and 2007. As our goal now is to conquer the A concept, it will be highlight some points of this assessment and the arrangements made to achieve in a short term, this objective, which, however, to be reached, needs to attend the demands of our indexers who establish: 1) To obtain the A2 concept, according to QUALIS-CAPES, it is necessary that the IMPACT FACTOR be greater than 0.7. 2) For the A1 concept, it is necessary that this factor be greater than 1.3. 3) Another important point is the IMMEDIACY INDEX. For example: to compose the September 2010 edition of the RBF, how many articles of the years 2010, 2009, 2008, etc.. were cited in the references? The newer the articles used, the better the index. 4) Completing the list of demands it is calculated the Citation Index, i.e. the RBF (Self Citation), considering the number of times the articles published in the RBF were used in the own RBF. The results obtained in the recent evaluation showed that: A)The IMPACT FACTOR OF THE RBF for 2009, calculated in terms of data from the 2008 and 2007 editions, obtained by the ratio between the number of articles used by the RBF, from journals indexed in the ISI divided by the total number of articles in these respective years. The result was equal to 0.265, as shown below: YEAR NUMBER OF PAPERS PUBLISHED IN THE RBF 2008 202 2007 134 TOTAL 336 Articles published in the RBF using indexed Journals in the ISI YEAR