Carta ao Editor

Abstract

The big news I'd like to share with our readers and contributors is that Capes has promoted História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos from A National to A International in the area of History. Let me translate for those unfamiliar with Capes or Qualis: Capes is a federal agency that promotes graduate education in Brazil by offering fellowships here and abroad, assessing graduate programs, and fostering scholarly production and exchange. Updated every three years, Qualis is the agency's list of periodicals that disseminate the intellectual production of graduate programs. Capes classifies these periodicals according to circulation (Local, National, or International) and quality (A, B, and C). A International encompasses "well-established periodicals … indexed in representative bases … and considered vital to the construction of historical knowledge, and that are of marked international scope and impact in the area, in addition to attracting unpublished texts by foreign authors" (http:// qualis.capes.gov.br/webqualis/). At the SciELO Portal, História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos occupies two categories: Health Sciences and Human Sciences. The journal's transdisciplinary nature is evinced by the number of Capes area committees that evaluate it. Today História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos is classified as A