The position of our country within international scenario has been increasing and Brazilian medicine follows this development. For this, it is our responsibility as human sciences professionals the adoption of modern principles ruling the preparation and publication of scientific papers and, among those principles, quality methodological criteria must be complied with. With this purpose, this inter-department and inter-disciplinary group of the Medical College of the University of S<o Paulo presents to Acta Ortopédica Brasileira a glossary of the terms that are frequently used in scientific methodology and related areas, such as epidemiology, statistics, and library sciences, added by some names and abbreviations of entities referred to on research programs. This combination of words, titles and abbreviations shall be of a great help to those who, by knowing them, shall be closer to the scientific community, enabled by the coliving, participation, discussion and engagement, which shall lead to a better understanding and shall target the improvement of their projects and publications.
Glossary; Controlled Vocabulary; Methodology