Editorial: dear ABCM community

Abstract

It is a great honour to announce that, in the last August, Thomson Scientific has confirmed that our JBSMSE (Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering) has been selected to be indexed in the SciSearch ® (Science Citation Index Expanded) and the Journal Citation Reports (JCR)/Science Edition which has been effective since vol.29, no.1, 2007. This is the result of a long application process, which had started when Prof. Leonardo Goldstein Junior was the Chief Editor and was further pursued by Prof. Átila Pantaleão Silva Freire. Throughout the years, the JBSMSE indexing had been the main target of many members of the ABCM, including not only those involved in editorial tasks, but also authors and reviewers. The JBSMSE indexing in entities such as ISI, Compendex, Scopus, SciELO is, of course, the result of personal effort and dedication of many colleagues, past and present, that had and have been involved in our editorial, revision, editing and graphical production tasks. But I would like to take this opportunity to specially acknowledge our past Editor-in-Chiefs who pioneered our JBSMSE since 1979: