EDITORIAL
The Brazilian Society of Fruticulture (SBF) started in 1970 when its first Congress had happened in the city of Campinas in which occasion we had the privilege of being one of the founders.
In 1978, attending the necessity to stimulate and spread the researches of this promising society the Brazilian Magazine of Fruticulture was born.
Periodically, every two years, the SBF realizes their National Congress always with a bigger number for both articles as participants, showing its active role in the development of the Brazilian fruticulture.
For the next Congress that will be realized in Vitoria - ES from October 12th to 17th of 2008, these numbers are enough to demonstrate the growing and the preference of our scientific community for the SBF and for the RBF.
Alongside the 1492 articles for the Congress, we also have others 363 to be presented in the 54th Annual Meeting of the "Interamerican Society for Tropical Horticulture", that will be occurring simultaneously with the Congress, and for both it have been already confirmed 1217 participants.
We must emphasize that in these events beyond the relevant significance that represents for the development of the fruticulture; it is recognized and consolidated the State of Espirito Santo as an important fruit pole in our national context.
Regarding to the Brazilian Magazine of Fruticulture, it should be considered some aspects which indicates that it is in the right path about its future and the certainty of its growth.
One of these indicators is the number of articles received annually (Figure 1).
While this number increased about 40% from 2004 to 2008, in the same period the time demanded from the reception of the articles to the acceptance of them decreased while the time from the acceptance and the publication increased (Chart 1).
This behavior was resulting mainly from the increasing of criterions and cares aiming the quality of our magazine by the editorial commission that started to ask additional observations for its advisors, even for articles in their final versions (Chart 2), which did not jeopardize significantly, the speed of these process but in relation of the number of articles not qualified to be published.
Regarding to the indexations are known since 2001,CAB; AGRIS; AGROBASE and SCIELO and ISI since December 2007.
Special distinction should be sent to the Associated Editors who are participating: Cristina Maria Moniz Simões Oliveira - Instituto Superior de Agronomia-Lisboa/Portugal; Dov Prusky-Agricultural Research Organization-Volcani Center, Israel; Duane Bartholomew-University of Hawaii,USA; Filiberto Loreti-Università di Pisa-Italia; Geo Coppens D'Eechenbrigge-CIRAD/France; Gerhard Fischer-Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad Nacional de Colômbia-Bogotá-Colombia; Javier Calatrava Requena-Instituto de Investigación y Formación Agrária y Pesquera-Granada-España; Jesus Aular Urieta-Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Álvarado, Barquisimeto, Venezuela; Jorge Retamales Aranda-Faculdad de Ciências Agrárias-Universidad de Talca-Chile; Leandro Olalla Mercadé-Centro de Investigación y Formación Agraria,Málaga-España; Léon-Étienne Parent - Université Laval, Québec, Canada; Marie-Noële Ducamp-Collin-CIRAD/France; Silviero Sansavini-Università di Bologna- Itália; Víctor Galán Saúco-Instituto Canário de Investigaciones Agrarias-Islas Canarias-España and Wayne Nishijima-University of Hawaii-USA,Hawaii.
Among the innovations, the numbers of editions became of three annual editions, in 2007 to four editions in 2008 while the number of advisors from 46 in December 1998 to 993 in 2008, the covers from the different editions became to represent since 1991, pictures of the fruit chosen to be spread with a brief but complete review (since 2006) in the first pages. Because of that the on line visits in the www.sielo.br site became expressive where can be highlighted the edition v.23,n.3,Dec. 2001 with about 139 thousand of visits until now.
For all these aspects the RBF will certainly reach distinction also in the International scientific scenario.
In this conquest are all that direct or indirectly cooperated and will still giving prestige to it with their attention and dedication, like our 993 scientific advisors, the financing organizations like FAPESP, CNPq and CAPES, our experts that preferably use the magazine, the Directors of the Brazilian Society of Fruticulture, the Editorial Board and others all mentioned in the first pages of each edition. Among them we would like to stand out the closest that participate and live daily in all those moments of this work, our employees Patrícia, Míriam, Marcílio, Prof. Barato, Núbia and Ari.
To everyone our gratitude.
To whom that will be with us, a good congress and have a nice stay in Vitoria.
Prof. Carlos Ruggiero
Editor RBF
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
04 Nov 2008 -
Date of issue
Sept 2008
