The continuity of a new era in the AE&M

Abstract

Notwithstanding, an exception could be made for well-written, synthetic, and well-documented articles which followed the publication's standards. One volume per year would be published, in one or more fascicles, if enough material was submitted.In the first available online version of the Journal (1) was published a review article on steroids and others on subjects that are still widely commented nowadays: normometabolic exophthalmos, use of androgens in short stature, and the diabetogenic potential of a substance used in the laboratory (formaldehyde). These researches were promoted by the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa (National Research Council), today the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development -CNPq). Since then, the Journal's affirmation has greatly depended on the efforts of its founders, becoming a regular publication in 1978, under the command of Dr. Armando de Aguiar Pupo, and with the support of an editorial board primarily composed of Brazilian endocrinologists.When I became an endocrinologist, in 1986, the Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia e Metabologia was already the official body for scientific dissemination of the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Brazilian Society of Diabetes. Manuscripts in Portuguese or English by leading researchers in the field (Bernardo Liberman, Bernardo Leo Wajchenberg, Doris Rosenthal, among many others) were published. Prof. Antônio Roberto Chacra, a great diabetologist, was the editor and director responsible for the Journal, which had the support of a strong editorial commission and was hosted at Escola Paulista de Medicina. On that occasion, the Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia e Metabologia was included in the Index Medicus Latinoamericano, Excerpta Medica, Chemical Abstracts and Biological Abstracts.Becoming a postgraduate student right after specializing in endocrinology and metabolism made me realize the importance of producing high-quality academic work and sharing my findings with the scientific community. Both my supervisor and my mentor, Prof. Helena Schmid, and the Head of the Endocrinology Service of the Hospital de Clínicas, Jorge Luis Gross, respectively, took their PhD in Ribeirão Preto, and played a key role in transmitting this perception to me.However, high quality research requires high commitment, from having interesting and original ideas, submitting projects for financing agencies, getting research funding, working in a team and under the guidance of those who already