Indexação de Ciência & Saúde Coletiva no Isi/Thomson é nossa prova de fogo

Abstract

This is the last number of Ciência & Saúde Coletiva in 2008, the year our Journal completes 13 years of existence. Although still young, in fact the youngest among the Brazilian journals related to Public Health, its history is a story of promising growth and development. Starting from the idea that scientific communication and peer citation complete the cycle of the scientific process, our Journal is making this trajectory in a very steady and progressive way: in 2002, it was indexed at the Scielo base, the most important scientific database for Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal and Spain. In 2007 it was indexed at Medline, the greatest and most reputed database in the health area on international level. And now, in 2008, the Journal was accepted at ISI/Thomson, the citation base most valorized in the scientific world. Although we received this excellent news only recently, in the second semester, the Journal will be indexed retroactively, starting with the first number published in 2008. In this last editorial of the year I also want to express my heartfelt thanks to all the referees for their generous contribution to the evaluation of the texts and to the entire editorial team that cared and cares passionately for the periodicity, the standard and the quality of our Journal. This said, it must be stressed that now, more than ever, we must engage in scientific policy in a global manner. I believe that everyone knows that today Brazil is occupying the 15th place in the world as refers to the number of articles divulged in international databases. This is a great achievement to which we hope to be able to contribute always more and always better. However, I am not sure if everyone is aware that the number of citations of our articles is very low.

O Programa Reuni E a Interiorização Das Universidades Federais: Uma Revisão Narrativa

“…Com a internacionalização da pesquisa científica houve diminuição nas publicações referentes a estudos que tratam apenas de questões locais. Artigos descritivos que estabelecem um tema local em sua especificidade podem ser de grande utilidade em periódicos locais, porém, a menos que tratem um tema que seja totalmente novo, não cabem em periódicos de circulação internacional (Minayo, 2008) Observa-se que o primeiro grupo é composto por quarenta e oito artigos, na sua maioria com menos de cinco anos, isso mostra que apesar do programa Reuni ter sido criado em 2007, o tema é bastante atual. Dentre os artigos, dois podem ser considerados como estudos bibliométrico, vinte e dois como estudos de caso e vinte e quatro como estudos globais.…”