“…With all the hype mixed with the excessive patriotism of a large country and of an emerging country expressed in the event, the Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia has learned and followed the strategies of specialty journals that are less favored by funding agencies and by CAPES (7) . Even with the difficulties of a scientific journal that relies on its own finances, it is necessary to learn from the lessons of this and previous events: to overcome barriers, organize the journal's structure, to prepare a fearless and dedicated editorial staff, to expand the editorial board with international members, to start to publish in English and after two years in Lilacs, ExtraMed Scopus and SciELO become indexed in PubMed thereby giving definitive and international visibility to articles (8-11) .…”