World recognition to the Archives

THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE

World recognition to the Archives

Antonio Carlos Palandri Chagas

President of SBC

^{Mailing address}

I cannot help bringing up again, in this message, the Congress of the American College of Cardiology. I refer, more specifically, to the I Meeting of Editors of Ibero-American Cardiovascular Journals, promoted by the Revista Española de Cardiología (Spanish Journal of Cardiology) during the event.

The meeting can be considered a historical accomplishment for the Brazilian Archives of Cardiology, as it unquestionably reaffirms the integration of the journal to an international forum of scientific discussion. Even further: it reaffirms the magnitude and the importance the journal is attaining outside the country, similarly to our Brazilian Society of Cardiology. It is also important to mention the continuous nature of this exchange. The meeting of Ibero-American editors must take place annually, naturally with the presence of the Archives – it is worth mentioning, the only Latin American journal acknowledged by the Thomson Scientific system (formerly, ISI) present at the meeting that joined professionals from 17 publications.

The participation is the result of initiatives to bring us closer to international entities promoted by this management, in this specific case, the Spanish Society of Cardiology. It also supports the right decision to bring to Brazil the Editor-in-Chief of their journal, Mr. Fernando Alfonso, for the commemoration of the 60^th Anniversary of the Archives, held last December.

In addition to strengthening the bond among Editors, the meeting also promoted the discussion of editorial subjects of joint interest, the research support policy and the need to create an association of Editors of Cardiology Journals in Portuguese and Spanish. The participation of the Archives in this forum, in addition to making us very proud, grants us the justified world acknowledgment to the Brazilian Society of Cardiology publication!

And such acknowledgment is not unfounded. In addition to the integration to the Thomson Scientific system, the journal is also indexed in Cumulated Index Medicus of the National Library of Medicine and in the databases of MEDLINE, EMBASE, LILACS, Scopus and SciELO (Elsevier), with citations in PubMed (United States National Library of Medicine) in English and Portuguese.

This is all so important that the 64^th Brazilian Congress of Cardiology will dedicate a specific session to the Archives. The idea is to bring editors of other publications to the event and stimulate the creation of a scientific discussion forum for universal themes to be promoted at the journals. Check for additional details at the next issue!

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  17 July 2009
• Date of issue
  June 2009