“…Among the seven national journals, four adopt the continuous flow and, of the international ones, only one had this information in its webpage. However, two others, even though they do not declare it in their instructions or pages, demonstrate that it is used, as the information "In progress" is showed in the number field, even with the division by volume and number This model brings a new meaning to the concept of immediate, introduced by the electronic publication of articles (11) . However, as a recent model, the impact of this form of publication on bibliometric indicators is not yet noticeable.…”