Carta dos Editores

Abstract

We are approaching the end of yet another year with a pleasant sense of accomplishment. We released all four of our regular issues in the first or second month of each quarter, meaning that the articles presented in their pages had greater exposure time and greater opportunities to circulate. You will soon receive our special issue of high-quality articles on the history of eugenicist thought. We have substantially reduced the lag time between manuscript receipt and approval. Our editorial team has participated ever more actively in forums at home and abroad to debate the issue of scientific publications on today's stage. Further, we continued our work to translate articles from Portuguese and Spanish into English, thanks to support from the Wellcome Trust, in addition to the budget that the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz allocates to the journal on an ongoing basis. This is an important albeit not sufficient step toward internationalization. Even more rewarding in this regard was an internal survey that found a significant rise in the number of submissions by Latin American authors. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos has expanded its borders and taken on the form of an increasingly relevant vehicle for regional production, while still preserving its unique characteristics and defending its commitment to open access. This commitment is more than necessary in the world of international journals dominated by commercial publishing giants and in light of the uncertainty over the financial sustainability of this policy in Brazil, given the funding constraints that have hit institutions and periodicals in science and technology. The journal's Facebook page in Portuguese has received over 6,000 likes, while the international version has received 2,760. This is a tremendous triumph in our efforts to reach out to readers who are interested not just in what we publish but also in contemporary debates in the fields of history, medicine, public health, and the sciences in general. The quality of our work was recently noted by the blog Ciência em Revista (Science in review), published by the University of Campinas, which reported that História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos is the 7 th-most-accessed human sciences journal in the SciELO collection and number one in the area of history. In addition, our journal has held on to its "A1 international" ranking in the Qualis-Capes journal evaluation system. These accomplishments are particularly satisfying considering that Brazil is going through a financial crunch that is only expected to worsen. The short-sightedness driving the implementation of fiscal adjustment policies here threatens the survival of academic

El incendio, la muerte y la esperanza

“…Our loyalty to the ashes of the precious documents, objects, animals, mummies and walls of the Museum is not to sit by and watch the emergency in which almost all the museums, archives and public universities of Brazil find themselves. We need a consensus in developing countries, such as Brazil and a good part of Latin America, that there will be no development without comprehensive and sufficient investments in their own science and culture (Ramacciotti, 2017, Silva, Cueto, 2016.…”