This article presents the production disseminated by Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem from 1993 to September 2001, the destination of the manuscripts submitted for publication and the description of the major problems detected by the editors and reviewers concerning manuscript evaluation. In spite of the problems detected, most of the manuscripts elaborated by nurse researchers were considered to be good quality and to have significantly contributed to nursing development. The problem that has been pointed out aims at warning authors with regard to some aspects that must be observed before submitting manuscripts to a journal for publication.
scientific production; dissemination; editing