The Brazilian Society of Cardiology’s most traditional scientific journal, with 73 years of history, Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia or ABC Cardiol, has recently reached a new level of international recognition based on its 2020 impact factor, which is a new historical record.

ABC Cardiol‘s new impact factor is 2.0, as published by the 2020 Journal of Citation Report (JCR, Clarivate), which means that, on average, each article published in ABC Cardiol was cited 2 times by other articles. This represents the impact of scientific data published in ABC Cardiol in the actively productive scientific community. This index has been progressively rising over the past years, and the impact factor of 2 is not merely an isolated number ().^– It is also highly noteworthy that ABC Cardiol holds first place among cardiovascular science journals in Latin America in international rankings, such as Scopus ().

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