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The Pathway to a High Impact Journal and Scopus Indexation–New Achievement of the International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences

Claudio Tinoco Mesquita

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”

Henry Ford

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Internationalization is Necessary, But is it Enough?

Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira et al. Andrea De Lorenzo Fernanda Marciano Consolim Colombo Eduardo Back Sternick … Andréa Araujo Brandão Sergio Emanuel Kaiser Alexandre Schaan de Quadros Renato Abdala Karam Kalil Christianne Brêtas Vieira Scaramello Francisco Rafael Martins Laurindo Ludhmila Abrahão Hajjar

Globalization has left its mark on the 21^st century. One of the many ways of defining globalization is as the integration of information, communication, and economy on a worldwide scale, with a direct influence on all levels of higher education. In this manner, the internationalization of postgraduation may be seen as a response to globalization, taking shape in the form of programs and policies put in place by academic institutions and governments in order to increase student and faculty exchanges and to stimulate and strengthen partnerships in research, among other actions. Universities and research centers have, in fact, been practicing these actions for a long time, but they have expanded significantly, particularly during this century.

Various studies^– have repeatedly shown that collaborative research that involves authors from multiple institutions and/or countries have an identifiably greater impact than research involving only one group or institution. In Brazil, the internationalization of postgraduation has been highly valued by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), generating immense efforts on the part of postgraduate programs (PGPs) to achieve the goals defined. In a study conducted with PGPs ranked 6 or 7 by CAPES, Ramos observed that internationalization in these PGPs encompasses everything from international mobility, international cooperation networks, academic output (international publications, international co-authorships, presentation of academic work in international scientific conferences and meetings), to access to resources through the sharing of research facilities and international funding. In Brazilian PGPs, the most popular internationalization strategies were international mobility of faculty, researchers, and students and international research collaboration, implemented mainly through international cooperation agreements. This study, nevertheless, detected inequalities between institutions in the provision of adequate conditions for internationalization. The availability of financial resources, the existence of regulatory frameworks, and organizational support were considered important requisites for achieving this goal.

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For a Model of Self-Citation Governance in Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Marcos Antonio Almeida-Santos et al. Deyse Mirelle Souza Santos Beatriz Santana Prado José Augusto Barreto-Filho

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia (ABC) has been the official scientific publication of Brazilian Society of Cardiology (Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia, SBC) since 1948. Since its beginning, ABC has continuously published articles on a wide range of topics in cardiology, becoming the main organ of dissemination of scientific work in Brazil and Portuguese-speaking countries. Since 1950, the articles have been indexed in the main international databases (Institute of Scientific Information – ISI Web of Science; Cumulated Index Medicus – MEDLINE; Pubmed Central; EMBASE; SCOPUS; SCIELO and LILACS), and are currently published in two languages (English and Portuguese). Thomson Reuters publishing company, owner of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) statistical database, created the concept of impact factor in 1955, aiming to provide an instrument to evaluate the performance of scientific publications in a comparative and quantitative manner. Impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations of articles published in an academic or technical journal indexed in the ISI by the total number of articles published in that journal during the two preceding years. These estimates include approximately 3,300 journals, 200 subject areas and 100 countries.

Impact factor is a metric for journal assessment, widely used by researchers to choose the best journal to submit their papers. However, its validity as an indicator of scientific impact has been questioned due to, among others, self-promoting journal self-citation in attempt to increase their impact factor. Overuse of self-citation practices is punishable, and caused the exclusion of 5 Brazilian journals from the JCR for one year (2013). For this reason, efficient control measures of this practice should be developed and implemented by scientific journals that seek to adhere to ethical precepts recommended by the scientific community.

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The Pathway to a High Impact Journal and Scopus Indexation–New Achievement of the International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences

Internationalization is Necessary, But is it Enough?

For a Model of Self-Citation Governance in Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

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