Indexação da RBR

Abstract

ince its foundation in 1947, during the administration of Waldemar Bianchi and Hilton Seda as general secretary with the help of Ayrthon Ferreira da Costa, the working proposal of BJR was to disseminate the scientific production of Brazilian rheumatologists. Always considering the quality of its publications, BJR went through periods of major and minor difficulties, advancing towards renewal and strengthening its position as the Brazilian Science in Rheumatology representative with the extraordinary work of Professor Edgar Atra in 1974. At this time, both Brazilian Society of Rheumatology (SBR from portuguese) and scientific publications in the field of Rheumatology were conquering their first steps. While the growth of SBR and Brazilian science quality in Rheumatology were clear to all, an effective search for indexation in MEDLINE was initiated only in 1996 with the BJR scientific editor Luis Eduardo Coelho Andrade and pursued by subsequent editors, Natalino