Carta dos editores

Abstract

Dear reader, As we wrap up each issue, one of the last things we do is prepare a summary of its contents for this note. This time, however, we're going to use the space to bring you some great news: História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos has been invited to be indexed in a bibliographic database of the Thomson Reuters Corporation, owner of the former Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) services and one of the world's most prestigious indexers of scientific periodicals. Founded in 1955 by the chemist Eugene Garfield, with head offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the ISI was bought by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in 1992; it was first renamed Thomson ISI and then, later, Thomson Scientific. Following the April 2008 merger of Thomson Scientific and Reuters news agency, Thomson Scientific became part of the new Thomson Reuters Corporation. With the expansion, more information services were offered, like the ISI Web of Knowledge, a research platform that provides tools for analyzing data from different sources, such as periodical articles, patents, internet sites, conference annals, and open access documents. The new company maintained and improved two of its best-known products: the Journal Citation Reports-which calculates the world's most widely used measure of scientific production, the impact factor-and the Web of Science, comprising the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. References to the full content of our journal will now be included in the latter index starting with our 2008 issues. The portal to Web of Knowledge products and services can be accessed at http:// isiwebofknowledge.com/, where you will find the names of journals indexed on Web of Science databases, along with the criteria used in selecting journals for inclusion. Capes Portal users can access the following ISI Web of Knowledge products: