Novo sistema de submissões do Jornal Vascular Brasileiro

Abstract

As of October, 2012 the submission system of J Vasc Bras was replaced with the Scholar-One system from Thomson-Reuters Company, made available by Scielo, at no cost for our journal. We are gradually migrating from the former system ("Submission-Scielo") to this new one because the latter provides many more resources and has fewer problems. More than 5,000 journals worldwide and around 13 millions of users use this system. Authors and reviewers will notice the user-friendly operation and interactivity of the new system.The Agreement between Thomson-Reuters company and Scielo will also allow for our archive of articles to be fully available as of 2013 on "Web of Science" indexer, which, along with Medline, is one of the most important indexers in the world. Thus, our articles will have a significant increase in international visibility, which should make it easier to cite articles and improve the impact factor of J Vasc Bras.We recently took a 2-day course at Scielo to learn about the resources and potentialities of the new system. Besides appropriately managing the flow of articles, the system allows to automatically obtain statistics on the number of submissions, origin of articles and their quality. The system also makes it possible to increase the communication between author, reviewer and editor and to obtain important managerial information about the reviewers at real time, such as their availability, withdrawals, response time, delays, and quality of evaluation. The system also provides statistical reports on the production of articles from authors and reviewers. I have emphasized that the reviewers of our journal should give the example and publish articles in J Vasc Bras on a regular basis. We should use these tools throughout the year 2013 to re-evaluate our editorial staff, which needs all reviewers, with no exception, to be committed to our journal. We also have a large group of AdHoc reviewers, who are competent, available and reliable and look for an opportunity to be part of the editorial staff.

Intentos do Jornal Vascular Brasileiro

“…I have repeatedly emphasized that the achievement of this goal is much more strongly dependent on the efforts of our authors and reviewers than on the work of editors. 2,3 Here again I would like to argue that reviewers and members of the Scientific Board of SBACV should be setting an example by routinely publishing in the J Vasc Bras. Notwithstanding, last year we actually noticed a drop in the number of articles submitted, a finding that ran counter to our expectations, especially after the numerous calls for action on my part towards colleagues, over several years.…”