Once again, the job is done!

After two difficult years as the editor of the Brazilian Journal of Pain (BrJP), my administration has come to an end, not without the certainty of having fulfilled my duty, even though it was not possible do develop all that was intended due to the pandemic, which had spread during this period.

My task ends with the certainty of having carried out the work entrusted to me by the members of the Brazilian Society for the Study of Pain (SBED), with good memories, with no nostalgia or frustrations, because I always did my best and acted with transparency, determination and responsibility, directing BrJP at a pace compatible with the pandemic, always meeting the strict deadlines, without giving up on quality and publishing the best articles from the submitted works, which were in reduced numbers due to Covid.

Despite the setbacks, it was possible to maintain the indexing through LILACS and Scielo, to implement the Ahead of Print (AOP) publications, and to adapt the Editorial Board to what is stipulated in the SBED Statute.

The ahead of print or AOP modality was applied with the objective of adapting the journal for indexing in new platforms, for this type of publication allows the fast dissemination of published articles, which can be accessed more quickly by the scientific community, increasing the exposure time of the articles and facilitating citations by other authors, being recommended for print and online journals that wish to continue using sequential pagination of articles, as is the case of BrJP¹,².

Articles published in AOP are included in the BrJP issues maintaining the title, authors and DOI number of the article published in AOP, but with the information of volume, issue number, pagination and date¹,².

Another change introduced was the adjustment of the Editorial Board, of which the Coeditors are now a part of. The Coeditors assume part of the Editor’s tasks, monitoring the review of articles and deciding with the Editor whether each article should be accepted for publishing or not³.

Moreover, this adaptation allows the Coeditors the freedom to invite professionals with expertise in several areas of health to perform the difficult task of reading and carefully evaluating the texts submitted by the authors, that is, to act as the reviewers of BrJP³.

The new Editor will certainly be able to further develop the projects of new indexations because the difficulties that we all went through in these two years hindered the plans to advance the internationalization of BrJP and to index the journal in Pubmed Central, a goal that was not possible to achieve.

I would like to conclude by thanking the Authors who submitted their works, the SBED Board of Directors for its support and encouragement, the Editorial Board for its agility in evaluating the articles, and the Editorial Coordination for the excellent work in the compliance and layout of articles and journals.

REFERENCES

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  Posso IP. Iniciamos a publicação em Ahead of Print! BrJP. São Paulo, 2020;3(2):93.
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  Scielo. Guia para a publicação avançada de artigos Ahead of Print (AOP) no Scielo [online]. Scielo, 2019 [20/05/2020]. Available from: https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/guia_AOP.pdf
  » https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/guia_AOP.pdf
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  Posso IP. Mais um passo! BrJP. São Paulo, 2021;4(1):1.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  17 Dec 2021
• Date of issue
  Oct-Dec 2021