The visibility of science published by the journal Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira is analized in the last 15 years, uninterrupted and maintining the regular intervals. Brazilian authors and of foreign countries published 116 articles in the first quinquennium (1986-1990), 170 in the second (1990-1995) and 190 in the third quinquennium (1995-2000). Also to be indexed in "Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information since 1987. Since may 1998 was incorporated in the project "Scientific Electronic Library Online-SciELO, being accessed by Internet. It is a electronic virtual library covering a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals. This project envisages the development of a common methodology for the preparation, storage, dissemination and evaluation of scientific literature in electronic format. Provides full access to a collection of serial titles as well as to the full text articles. SciELO's site is: <a href="http://www.scielo.br/">http://www.scielo.br</a>. The performance of the journal Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira can be measured by statistical analysis accessing the site. The journal fulfilled the concepts of informetrics, bibliometrics and scientometrics.
Publications; Publishing/Periodicals; Electronic publication; Information science
