Editorial

Abstract

Looking back at the 2007 JBCS, Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, we notice that there were issues quite similar to those of the previous year (2006), indicating a certain stability in the scenario which has been showing a considerable increase: approximately 700 manuscripts were submitted and 206 articles were published in the eight issues of 2007, over a total of 1592 pages (averaging 199 per issue). These numbers represent an increase of over 100% upon the year 2004.It can be seen that the periodical has extended its reach in every sense, most visibly by the participation of foreign authors (accounting for 55% of all submissions) predominantly from Iran, India, China, Pakistan, Turkey, Chile, Egypt, Iraq, Mexico, the USA, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Portugal, Colombia, Serbia, Venezuela, Malaysia and Argentina (in this order). This participation is important to the JBCS, although its predominance might indicate that we should continue encouraging the participation of the Brazilian community. After all, one of the goals of our periodical is to publish the Chemistry made in Brazil.We can also point out that the quality of articles published has maintained itself, considering the Impact Factor (IF) of the ISI, Institute for Scientific Information. It seems that once