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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Arq Bras Cardiol</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5935/abc.20150015</article-id>
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          <subject>Editorial</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>The representativeness of the Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia for
               Brazilian Cardiology Science</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Evora</surname>
            <given-names>Paulo Roberto Barbosa</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff01">1</xref>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c01"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Moreira</surname>
            <given-names>Luiz Felipe P.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff02">2</xref>
        </contrib>
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        <label>1</label>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv1">Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeir&#227;o
               Preto</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv2">Department of Surgery and Anatomy</institution>
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          <named-content content-type="city">Ribeir&#227;o Preto</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">SP</named-content>
        </addr-line>
        <country>Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Department of Surgery and Anatomy of Faculdade de
               Medicina de Ribeir&#227;o Preto, Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo (USP), Ribeir&#227;o Preto, S&#227;o
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        <label>2</label>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv1">Faculdade de Medicina</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv2">Hospital das Cl&#237;nicas</institution>
        <addr-line>
          <named-content content-type="city">S&#227;o Paulo</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">SP</named-content>
        </addr-line>
        <country>Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Instituto do Cora&#231;&#227;o, Hospital das Cl&#237;nicas,
               Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo (USP), S&#227;o Paulo, SP &#8211;
               Brazil</institution>
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      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c01"><bold>Mailing Address: Paulo Roberto Barbosa Evora,</bold> Rua Rui
               Barbosa 367, 15, Centro. Postal Code 14015-120, Ribeir&#227;o Preto, SP &#8211; Brazil. E-mail:
                  <email>prbevora@cardiol.br</email>; <email>prbevora@fmrp.usp.br</email></corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub-ppub">
        <month>02</month>
        <year>2015</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>104</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>94</fpage>
      <lpage>96</lpage>
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        <kwd>Periodicals as Topic</kwd>
        <kwd>Journal Impact Factor</kwd>
        <kwd>Portals for Scientific Journals</kwd>
        <kwd>Bibliometrics</kwd>
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    <p>The front page of the <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</italic> (Brazilian
         Archives of Cardiology) discloses an objective view of the current representativeness of
         the journal<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B01">1</xref>:</p>
    <disp-quote>
      <p>&#8220;With over 60 years of existence, the Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia (Arq Bras
            Cardiol) is the official scientific publication of Brazilian Society of Cardiology
            (BSC), serving as the main channel for the dissemination of Brazilian scientific
            research on cardiovascular sciences. Published in two languages and indexed in major
            international databases (ISI Web of Science; Cumulated Index Medicus &#8212; MEDLINE; EMBASE;
            SCOPUS; SCIELO and LILACS), Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia has an average impact
            factor of 1.1, according to Thompson Reuters. This rating puts our journal at a level
            that is similar to most journals indexed in ISI Web of Science in the field of
            Cardiology.&#8221;</p>
    </disp-quote>
    <p>Considering the historical and academic significance of the <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de
            Cardiologia</italic>, since its indexing in MEDLINE that started in 1950, some authors
         have assumed the hypothesis that the analysis of publications in the last 60 years could
         reflect the changing trends of heart disease in Brazil. The existence of an epidemiological
         link between cardiac diseases that are prevalent in Brazil and the publications of the
            <italic>Arquivos</italic> has been suggested. This evidence, associated with planning,
         publications and guideline updates, leaves no doubt about its crucial importance for
         Brazilian Cardiology<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B02">2</xref><sup>-</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B04">4</xref>.</p>
    <p>Regarding the evaluation of its impact, the announcement of the <italic>Arquivos</italic>&#8217;
         first Impact Factor by the <italic>Journal of Citation Report</italic> of Thompson Reuters
         occurred in 2010. Since then, the values of this bibliometric index, documented by the Web
         of Science database of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), have confirmed the
         degree of scientific relevance and the scope of studies carried out in Brazil, as well as
         those performed in international centers that have been published in our journal. The
         ratings place the <italic>Arquivos</italic> at the same level of approximately 30% of
         international journals indexed in the ISI database in the field of Cardiology. The
            <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</italic> currently occupies position 95
         among 125 journals listed by ISI with a positive impact factor in the field of
         cardiovascular diseases in 2014. Among these publications, only five have an impact factor
         greater than ten (4%); 17 (13.6%) between 5.04 and 7.44; 47 (37.6%) between 2.044 and
         4.918; 35 (28%) between 1.965 and 1.018 and; 21 (16.8%) with an impact factor of 0.011 and
         0.912.</p>
    <p>Individual analysis of the <italic>Arquivos</italic> by Web of Science currently discloses
         the following numbers: 3,383 indexed publications, with 2,509 original and review articles.
         Since 2003, these articles have received 7,365 citations (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01">Figure 1</xref>), corresponding to a mean rate of 2.64 citations per ar ticle and an H
         index of 25. The number of self&#8209;citations was 1,482, accounting for only 26.2% of the
         total. Among the ten most cited papers, the majority corresponds to guidelines and
         epidemiological data<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B05">5</xref><sup>-</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref>. It is worth mentioning the presence of a single
         article on basic sciences<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">11</xref>. The interesting thing
         is that these articles are not totally dependent on national citations.</p>
    <fig id="f01">
      <label>Figure 1</label>
      <caption>
        <title>Number of original and review articles published and number of citations obtained
               by the same articles in the Web of Science database during the analyzed
               period.</title>
      </caption>
      <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-104-02-0094-50015-gf01.jpg"/></fig>
    <p>The relevance of the <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</italic> for Brazilian
         cardiology science can also be assessed through its position as the main vehicle for the
         dissemination of national research at international level. Of 1,581 original articles
         published by Brazilian authors and institutions between 2010 and 2012 in journals indexed
         in the Web of Science database, it is noteworthy the fact that 27% were published in the
            <italic>Arquivos</italic>, whereas 43% of these articles were published by journals with
         a higher impact factor, located at the upper strata of the CAPES Qualis classification
            (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f02">Figure 2</xref>).</p>
    <fig id="f02">
      <label>Figure 2</label>
      <caption>
        <title>Percentage of original and review articles published by Brazilian authors and
               institutions, according to the Qualis-CAPES classification. ABC: Brazilian Archives
               of Cardiology</title>
      </caption>
      <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-104-02-0094-50015-gf02.jpg"/></fig>
    <p>Aiming to improve the quality of publications, the Editorial Board of the journal has
         adopted a certain degree of academic prioritization. Currently, 60% of the articles
         published in the <italic>Arquivos</italic> originate from academic studies at post-graduate
         level. Although greater receptivity has been observed from Post-Graduate Programs in
         Cardiology, unfortunately this decision has not reflected the positive variation of the
         Impact Factor in recent years, leading to the suggestion that the Brazilian academic
         community has not prioritized the <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</italic> as
         an option to have their best works published. However, we believe that this trend can be
         reversed, being one of the motivations of this editorial, seeking to encourage postgraduate
         programs to give higher priority to the Archives. Finally, there is a clear need for
         greater participation in the area of Basic Science and applied research in Cardiology, as
         well as the publication of a greater number of controlled clinical trials and meta-analyses
         in our journal.</p>
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          <subject>Editorial</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>A Representatividade dos Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia para a
               Ci&#234;ncia Cardiol&#243;gica Brasileira</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Evora</surname>
            <given-names>Paulo Roberto Barbosa</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff03">1</xref>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c02"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Moreira</surname>
            <given-names>Luiz Felipe P.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff04">2</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff03">
        <label>1</label>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv1">Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeir&#227;o
               Preto</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv2">Departamento de Cirurgia e Anatomia</institution>
        <addr-line>
          <named-content content-type="city">Ribeir&#227;o Preto</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">SP</named-content>
        </addr-line>
        <country>Brasil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Departamento de Cirurgia e Anatomia da Faculdade de
               Medicina de Ribeir&#227;o Preto, Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo (USP), Ribeir&#227;o Preto, S&#227;o
               Paulo, SP &#8211; Brasil</institution>
        <institution content-type="normalized">Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo</institution>
      </aff>
      <aff id="aff04">
        <label>2</label>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv1">Faculdade de Medicina</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv2">Hospital das Cl&#237;nicas</institution>
        <addr-line>
          <named-content content-type="city">S&#227;o Paulo</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">SP</named-content>
        </addr-line>
        <country>Brasil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Instituto do Cora&#231;&#227;o, Hospital das Cl&#237;nicas,
               Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo (USP), S&#227;o Paulo, SP &#8211;
               Brasil</institution>
        <institution content-type="normalized">Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo</institution>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c02"><bold>Correspond&#234;ncia: Paulo Roberto Barbosa Evora,</bold> Rua Rui
               Barbosa 367, 15, Centro. CEP 14015-120, Ribeir&#227;o Preto, SP - Brasil. E-mail:
                  <email>prbevora@cardiol.br</email>; <email>prbevora@fmrp.usp.br</email></corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <kwd-group xml:lang="pt">
        <kwd>Revistas Como Assunto</kwd>
        <kwd>Fator de Impacto de Revistas</kwd>
        <kwd>Portais de Acesso &#224;s Revistas Cient&#237;ficas</kwd>
        <kwd>Bibliometria</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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    <body>
      <p>A p&#225;gina de aber tura dos <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</italic> apresenta
            uma objet iva vis&#227;o da representatividade atual do peri&#243;dico<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B01">1</xref>:</p>
      <disp-quote>
        <p>
          <italic>&#8220;Com mais de 60 anos de exist&#234;ncia, os Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
                  s&#227;o a publica&#231;&#227;o cient&#237;fica oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) e
                  o principal ve&#237;culo de divulga&#231;&#227;o das pesquisas cient&#237;ficas brasileiras na &#225;rea
                  das ci&#234;ncias cardiovasculares. Publicado em dois idiomas e indexado nas principais
                  bases de dados internacionais (ISI Web of Science; Cumulated Index Medicus -
                  MEDLINE; EMBASE; SCOPUS; SCIELO e LILACS), os Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
                  tem um fator de impacto m&#233;dio de 1,1, de acordo com a Thompson Reuters. Este fato
                  nos coloca em patamar semelhante &#224; maioria dos peri&#243;dicos indexados na plataforma
                  Web of Science na &#225;rea de Cardiologia.&#8221;</italic>
        </p>
      </disp-quote>
      <p>Considerando a relev&#226;ncia hist&#243;rica e acad&#234;mica dos <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de
               Cardiologia</italic>, posto que sua indexa&#231;&#227;o no MEDLINE iniciou-se em 1950, alguns
            autores assumiram como hip&#243;tese que a an&#225;lise das publica&#231;&#245;es de 60 anos poderia
            refletir as tend&#234;ncias evolutivas das doen&#231;as card&#237;acas no Brasil. Sugeriu-se a
            exist&#234;ncia de um elo epidemiol&#243;gico entre as doen&#231;as cardiol&#243;gicas prevalentes no Brasil
            e as publica&#231;&#245;es dos <italic>Arquivos</italic>. Essas evid&#234;ncias, associadas ao
            planejamento, publica&#231;&#245;es e atualiza&#231;&#245;es de diretrizes, n&#227;o deixam d&#250;vidas sobre a
            capital import&#226;ncia para a cardiologia brasileira<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B02">2</xref><sup>-</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B04">4</xref>.</p>
      <p>Com rela&#231;&#227;o &#224; avalia&#231;&#227;o de seu impacto, a divulga&#231;&#227;o do primeiro Fator de Impacto dos
               <italic>Arquivos</italic> pelo <italic>Journal of Citation Report</italic>, da
               <italic>Thompson Reuters</italic>, ocorreu em 2010. Desde ent&#227;o, os valores deste
            &#237;ndice bibliom&#233;trico, documentados pela base de dados do <italic>Web of Science</italic>
            do <italic>Institute for Scientific Information</italic> (ISI), t&#234;m confirmado o grau de
            relev&#226;ncia cient&#237;fica e do alcance das pesquisas brasileiras e de centros estrangeiros
            publicadas em nossa revista. A pontua&#231;&#227;o obtida coloca os <italic>Arquivos</italic> no
            mesmo patamar de cerca de 30% dos peri&#243;dicos internacionais indexados na base de dados
            do ISI na &#225;rea de Cardiologia. Os <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</italic>
            ocupam atualmente a posi&#231;&#227;o 95 entre 125 peri&#243;dicos listados pelo ISI com fator de
            impacto positivo na &#225;rea de doen&#231;as cardiovasculares em 2014. Entre estas publica&#231;&#245;es,
            apenas cinco apresentam fator de impacto maior que dez (4%); 17 (13,6%) entre 5.04 e
            7.44; 47 (37,6%) entre 2.044 e 4.918; 35 (28%) entre 1.965 e 1.018 e; 21 (16,8%) com
            fator de impacto entre 0.011 e 0.912.</p>
      <p>A an&#225;lise individual dos <italic>Arquivos</italic> pelo <italic>Web of Science</italic>
            revela atualmente os seguintes n&#250;meros: 3383 publica&#231;&#245;es indexadas, sendo 2509 artigos
            originais ou de revis&#227;o. Desde 2003, estes artigos receberam 7365 cita&#231;&#245;es (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f03">Figura 1</xref>), correspondendo a um &#237;ndice m&#233;dio de 2,64
            cita&#231;&#245;es por artigo e um &#237;ndice H de 25. O n&#250;mero de autocita&#231;&#245;es foi de 1482,
            correspondendo a apenas 26,2% do total. Entre os dez trabalhos mais citados, a maioria
            corresponde a diretrizes e dados epidemiol&#243;gicos<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B05">5</xref><sup>-</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref>. Destaca-se a presen&#231;a
            de um &#250;nico trabalho voltado para ci&#234;ncias b&#225;sicas<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">11</xref>. O curioso &#233; que esses trabalhos n&#227;o s&#227;o totalmente dependentes de
            cita&#231;&#245;es nacionais.</p>
      <fig id="f03">
        <label>Figura 1</label>
        <caption>
          <title>N&#250;mero de artigos originais e revis&#227;o publicados e n&#250;mero de cita&#231;&#245;es obtidas
                  pelos mesmos artigos na base de dados do Web of Science no per&#237;odo
                  analisado.</title>
        </caption>
        <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-104-02-0094-50015-gf01-pt.jpg"/></fig>
      <p>A relev&#226;ncia dos <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</italic> para a ci&#234;ncia
            cardiol&#243;gica brasileira pode tamb&#233;m ser avaliada por sua posi&#231;&#227;o como principal ve&#237;culo
            de divulga&#231;&#227;o das pesquisas nacionais em n&#237;vel internacional. Entre 1581 artigos
            originais publicados por autores e institui&#231;&#245;es brasileiras entre 2010 e 2012 em
            peri&#243;dicos indexados na base de dados do <italic>Web of Science</italic>, destaca-se o
            fato de que 27% foram realizadas nos <italic>Arquivos</italic>, enquanto que 43% destes
            artigos foram veiculados por peri&#243;dicos de maior fator de impacto, situados nos estratos
            superiores da classifica&#231;&#227;o Qualis da CAPES (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f04">Figura
               2</xref>).</p>
      <fig id="f04">
        <label>Figura 2</label>
        <caption>
          <title>Percentual de artigos originais e de revis&#227;o publicados por autores e
                  institui&#231;&#245;es brasileiras, de acordo com a classifica&#231;&#227;o Qualis &#8211; CAPES. ABC:
                  Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia.</title>
        </caption>
        <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-104-02-0094-50015-gf02-pt.jpg"/></fig>
      <p>No sentido de melhorar a qualidade das publica&#231;&#245;es, o Conselho Editorial do peri&#243;dico
            tem adotado certo grau de prioriza&#231;&#227;o acad&#234;mica. Na atualidade, 60% dos artigos
            publicados nos <italic>Arquivos</italic> s&#227;o origin&#225;rios de trabalhos acad&#234;micos em
            n&#237;vel de p&#243;s-gradua&#231;&#227;o. Embora tenha ocorrido maior receptividade dos Programas de
            P&#243;s&#8209;Gradua&#231;&#227;o em Cardiologia, infelizmente, essa decis&#227;o n&#227;o refletiu na varia&#231;&#227;o
            positiva do Fator de Impacto nos &#250;ltimos anos, levando &#224; sugest&#227;o de que a comunidade
            acad&#234;mica brasileira n&#227;o tem priorizado os <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de
               Cardiologia</italic> como op&#231;&#227;o de publica&#231;&#227;o de seus melhores trabalhos. No entanto,
            acreditamos que essa tend&#234;ncia poder&#225; ser revertida, sendo uma das motiva&#231;&#245;es desse
            editorial, que busca incentivar os programas de p&#243;s&#8209;gradua&#231;&#227;o a prestigiarem os
               <italic>Arquivos</italic> com mais prioridade. Finalmente, fica clara a necessidade
            de maior participa&#231;&#227;o da &#225;rea de ci&#234;ncias b&#225;sicas e da pesquisa aplicada em cardiologia,
            bem como da publica&#231;&#227;o de maior n&#250;mero de ensaios cl&#237;nicos controlados e metan&#225;lises em
            nosso peri&#243;dico.</p>
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