História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos: 25+

Abstract

It is unquestionably a significant milestone. For 25 years, it has been making the history of science and of health legitimate, relevant, fundamental activities. It was created by the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, a techno-scientific unity of Fiocruz founded in 1986, which published the Cadernos de História e Saúde from 1989-1992; this valuable publication, which appeared at irregular intervals, was the precursor to ours. From the outset, our journal showed the institution's commitment to history, and to science writing, as well as to preserving documentary and material resources related to the sciences and health. In one of the first Editor's Letter, Jaime L. Benchimol explained that it was not a vanity publication and that it would be "much more than mere decoration on the rhetorical cake" of scientific events (Benchimol, maio-ago. 2002, p.257). The achievements of the last 25 years have not followed a linear trajectory. Over time, through a series of advances and setbacks, the journal came up with professional manuscript processing systems, consistent editorial policies, and clear instructions for authors. There were some landmark years along the way. For example, it took us until 2006 to establish that the journal would be published quarterly, and, although the first annual supplement appeared in 1998, it was not until 2001 that it became customary for us to publish at least one supplement a year. In 1998, we launched a digital version, and the number of downloads rapidly exceeded the number of print copies. In 2013, our articles were assigned the essential DOI (Digital Object Identifier), which identifies them anywhere in the world. In 2000, we joined the ambitious and successful Scientific Electronic Library Online, known as SciELO, and two years later we were added to the prestigious Medline database, created by the US National Institutes for Health. This was an addition to Sociological Abstracts, the first international indexing system to include the journal, in 1996, followed by many others such as Thomson Reuters, based on a project designed by the American Eugene Garfield in the 1950s. More recently, in 2015, we joined the Mexican database Redalyc, the Network of Scientific Journals of Latin America and the Caribbean (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe). Also in 2006, we began translating some of the articles into English, whilst also receiving increasing numbers of articles in Spanish and English from various countries (currently, almost half the articles published in each

Nuevas instrucciones a los autores y el futuro del artículo científico en ciencias humanas

“…In the penultimate phase, authors should not only correct grammatical errors, polish the style, complete statistical charts and bibliographical references, and make sure the images are of the required quality. The goal is to create a piece of writing that is relatively short but clear, orderly and deep in its approach to and interpretation of the problem (generally one or two per article); it should explain the methodology used, avoid repetition in presenting evidence, and establish a dialogue with other researchers (Cueto, 2011). Attention to these matters means that the text will have the virtues of good historical articles, which present discoveries in a way that transcends mere description, trace connections between context, institutions and personalities, and skillfully weigh processes of change and continuity.A phrase from the preceding paragraph should be stressed: "relatively short," because some submitters make the common mistake of assuming that an article is just a chapter from a thesis they have just defended or a book they are about to write.…”