RBR indexada no MEDLINE

Abstract

T his is an official statement that our Brazilian Journal of Rheumatology (BJR) was indexed in the MEDLINE database, which represents a milestone for our specialty in Brazil and will provide a much broader international visibility. From now on, authors, reviewers, researchers, and readers will be please to seek the RBR articles through MEDLINE. It was 50 years of waiting and four previous failed attempts. The journal evolution was conquered by the dedication and expertise of its many and bright editors throughout the history of BJR, with the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology (SBR from portuguese) support. Thus, the journal got indexed in SciELO, Scopus, Index Copernicus, and LILACS. But the ultimate prize still seemed distant place. The international scenery did not look very promising. In Latin and Central Americas, only Mexico has a rheumatology journal recently indexed. Even so, it is a bi-national production, together with Spain. But the tradition and quality of BJR would be the endorsement for a new attempt at indexing. To achieve this goal we have, at the end of 2008, the full support of the SBR President, Dr Ieda Laurindo, as well as all members of our society present at the strategy meeting at the beginning of Ieda's mandate. In this event, we decided to prioritize all the measures necessary for the election. The first was the hiring of Elsevier, for its recognized expertise on the issue of hundreds of international scientific journals. The first issue of 2009 was already bilingual and edited with a complete visual reformulation, more current. We tried to give priority to publishing original articles, which had a 50% increase. It was also necessary to streamline the content on other aspects, suspending sections of the journal that, although interesting, would not contribute to the process of approval from MEDLINE. The peer review system is being performed on the entire production of the magazine.