Visibilidade e internacionalização da Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem: perspectivas e desafios

Abstract

EDITORIALIn recent years, there has been noteworthy movement on the part of Brazilian scientific periodicals in pursuit of visibility and internationalization. It is a subject that has been central to discussions by scientific editor forums gathering together different disciplines. (1) Among other aspects, they have been focused on how to promote the international impact of Brazilian scientific production, considering the national and international scope and relevance of the research and subsequent consumption and or application of the findings in practice.The debates are accentuated on the importance of technological development to point towards innovation as science is produced in Brazil, in such a way as to meet the population's real needs and potential, but also on producing technology that will have a positive impact on the nation's social and economic conditions. (2) Nevertheless, with researchers raising the alert to consider problems external to the domestic situation, aspects that will be able to give visibility to innovative technology being produced here and subsequent exportation.The magazines' factor of impact, quality of the editors and experts or consultants, the peer review process, the difficulty of publishing in high impact periodicals, the assessment criteria used by the support agencies for classifying periodicals, the professionalization and funding of magazines are the subjects of ongoing discussions. (3,4) Led by the Brazilian Nursing Association (ABEN), Brazilian nursing scientific periodicals coparticipating in this movement have made it part of their daily agendas to call their editors into the discussion, so as to think about and introduce strategies that may solve these and other difficulties, which are great challenges for the field.The Southern Brazilian Nursing Magazine (RGE) has shown itself to be immersed in this challenging project, having promoted the production of research nurses in Brazil and Latin America without interruption since 1976. Throughout its history, it has been adapting its editorial processes, in such a way as to meet the market demands of nursing and general healthcare scientific publications, regarding managing the quality of its main product, whatever the manuscript submitted to it and its author by the confidence deposited in the RGE.Recently, RGE (Qualis B1 CAPES rating), upon request from SciELO Brasil, drew up the 2012 Annual Performance Report for the purpose of evaluating its continuance in their database. This was based on quantitative and qualitative information inherent to RGE's nature considering the different dimensions of the editorial processes providing evidence of its progress.The work flow chart for manuscripts from their submission to acceptance and publication became more agile and skilled, in so far as the magazine created and defined attributions for submission editors (01), department editors (06) and editorial commission (04). The technical staff also became more pro-Crossetti MGO, Ribeiro AC, Goes MGO. Visibility and Internationalizati...