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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">abc</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 - SBC</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>S&#227;o Paulo, SP, Brazil</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id" specific-use="scielo-v1">S0066-782X(07)08900601</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1590/S0066-782X2007001800001</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Carta do Editor</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Miss&#227;o cumprida</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Vilas-Boas</surname>
            <given-names>F&#225;bio</given-names>
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      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2007</year>
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      <volume>89</volume>
      <issue>6</issue>
      <fpage>355</fpage>
      <lpage>355</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" xml:lang="en">
          <license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.</license-p>
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      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub">
        <day>18</day>
        <month>04</month>
        <year>2008</year>
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    <p>
      <bold>CARTA DO EDITOR</bold>
    </p>
    <p>F&#225;bio Vilas-Boas</p>
    <p>Salvador, BA</p>
    <p>
      <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="back">Correspond&#234;ncia</xref>
    </p>
    <p>
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    <p>
      <bold>Miss&#227;o cumprida</bold>
    </p>
    <p>Quando assumimos a fun&#231;&#227;o de Editor dos <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</italic> h&#225; quase dois anos, definimos um objetivo final comum: elevar o fator de impacto dos Arquivos.</p>
    <p>Com o apoio de uma equipe de co-editores de elevado gabarito (Fernando Bacal, Amanda G. M. R. Sousa, Antonio Carlos Pereira-Barretto, Carisi Polanczyk, Gilson S. Feitosa, Iran Castro, Maur&#237;cio I. Scanavacca, Paulo R. S. Brofman, Paulo A. Lotufo, Paulo R. F. Rossi e Paulo J. F. Tucci), al&#233;m do apoio da Diretoria da SBC, atrav&#233;s do Diretor de Comunica&#231;&#227;o, Carlos V. Serrano Jr e do Presidente, Jos&#233; P&#233;ricles Esteves, conseguimos implementar diversas mudan&#231;as na gest&#227;o da revista, visando a melhoria da sua qualidade.</p>
    <p>Os &#250;ltimos dois anos assistiram ao maior feito de toda a hist&#243;ria dos <italic>Arquivos</italic>. O peri&#243;dico tornou-se a &#250;nica publica&#231;&#227;o de cardiologia da Am&#233;rica Latina reconhecida pela mais respeitada entidade certificadora do mundo: o <italic>Science Citation Index Expanded</italic> da <italic>Thomson Scientific</italic>, o antigo ISI. Essa foi uma das maiores realiza&#231;&#245;es da atual equipe de editores, mas que &#233; fruto do trabalho de muitos anos e conseq&#252;&#234;ncia de um processo que teve in&#237;cio em gest&#245;es anteriores que muito contribu&#237;ram para o aperfei&#231;oamento da revista. Com o reconhecimento, a publica&#231;&#227;o passar&#225; a ser qualificada pela Coordena&#231;&#227;o de Aperfei&#231;oamento de Pessoal de N&#237;vel Superior (Capes) como Qualis B internacional &#150; classifica&#231;&#227;o necess&#225;ria para publica&#231;&#227;o de teses de Doutorado. A partir de agora, os <italic>Arquivos</italic> poder&#227;o absorver os melhores trabalhos das p&#243;s-gradua&#231;&#245;es brasileiras, o que impactar&#225; n&#227;o s&#243; no volume de artigos recebidos, mas tamb&#233;m na qualidade da publica&#231;&#227;o.</p>
    <p>Ap&#243;s um trabalho de diagn&#243;stico dos principais problemas da revista, a equipe t&#233;cnica e de co-editores implementou diversas medidas, com destaque para a cria&#231;&#227;o das p&#225;ginas eletr&#244;nicas, o que eliminou a longa fila de artigos aprovados, encurtando o prazo entre submiss&#227;o e publica&#231;&#227;o para padr&#245;es semelhantes a poucas revistas de cardiologia do mundo. Adotamos procedimentos t&#233;cnicos para dar um car&#225;ter mais profissional ao processo, de modo que a publica&#231;&#227;o ganhasse mais liberdade editorial. A sele&#231;&#227;o de novos revisores, mais envolvidos com a atividade acad&#234;mica, e o aumento do rigor para aceita&#231;&#227;o dos artigos, tamb&#233;m contribu&#237;ram para elevar o n&#237;vel dos <italic>Arquivos</italic>. A declara&#231;&#227;o de conflito de interesses tornou-se obrigat&#243;ria, bem como a declara&#231;&#227;o de fontes de financiamento e de vincula&#231;&#227;o acad&#234;mica, garantindo mais transpar&#234;ncia e credibilidade ao peri&#243;dico. A exist&#234;ncia desses dados permitir&#225; acompanhar a evolu&#231;&#227;o do perfil dos artigos publicados nos pr&#243;ximos anos.</p>
    <p>Criamos a Normatiza&#231;&#227;o (conjunto de normas de funcionamento) da revista, que passa a reger o peri&#243;dico de acordo com par&#226;metros internacionais, estabelecidos pelo <italic>Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals</italic> do <italic>International Committee of Medical Journal Editors</italic>. Inclu&#237;mos a revista no Estatuto Social da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) e criamos o Conselho Deliberativo dos <italic>Arquivos</italic> (ConDArq), o que garantir&#225; independ&#234;ncia editorial e de gest&#227;o. Esse conselho, que passa a ser o gestor da revista, &#233; composto por ex-editores e pelos coordenadores das tr&#234;s p&#243;s-gradua&#231;&#245;es de Cardiologia mais bem avaliadas pela Capes. Por serem essas entidades as principais respons&#225;veis pela produ&#231;&#227;o cient&#237;fica no pa&#237;s, com a aproxima&#231;&#227;o, estamos contribuindo para aperfei&#231;oar o processo da pesquisa em cardiologia no Brasil. Os pr&#243;ximos anos ir&#227;o testemunhar o resultado dessas mudan&#231;as, agora que a revista passar&#225; a ter o seu fator de impacto mensurado.</p>
    <p>A contrata&#231;&#227;o do editor-chefe mediante processo de sele&#231;&#227;o p&#250;blica &#233; uma vit&#243;ria da comunidade acad&#234;mica nacional. At&#233; ent&#227;o, o cargo era uma indica&#231;&#227;o da diretoria da SBC; a partir de agora, ser&#225; por crit&#233;rios t&#233;cnicos e cient&#237;ficos. A mudan&#231;a &#233; v&#225;lida para profissionais que atuar&#227;o a partir de 2010 e cujo mandato passar&#225; a ser de quatro anos. A escolha foi feita por uma equipe do mais elevado n&#237;vel, atrav&#233;s de an&#225;lise de curr&#237;culo e arg&#252;i&#231;&#227;o p&#250;blica.</p>
    <p>Assim, em nome de toda a equipe t&#233;cnica e editorial que trabalhou nos &#250;ltimos dois anos, agradecemos a confian&#231;a e o prest&#237;gio dos pesquisadores que submeteram artigos e daqueles colegas revisores que t&#227;o dedicadamente emitiram seus pareceres. Sem essas pessoas os <italic>Arquivos</italic> n&#227;o teriam chegado aonde est&#227;o.</p>
    <p>Cordialmente,</p>
    <p>
      <bold>F&#225;bio Vilas-Boas</bold>
    </p>
    <p> Editor &#150; Chefe</p>
    <p>
      <fn id="back" fn-type="corresp">
        <p>Correspond&#234;ncia:</p>
        <p> F&#225;bio Vilas-Boas </p>
        <p> Hospital Espanhol </p>
        <p> Servi&#231;o de Cardiologia </p>
        <p> Av. Sete de Setembro, 2152/2002 </p>
        <p> 40080-002 - Salvador &#150; BA </p>
        <p> Email: </p>
        <p>
          <email xlink:href="fabiovboas@cardiol.br">fabiovboas@cardiol.br</email>
        </p>
      </fn>
    </p>
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          <subject>Editor's Letter</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title xml:lang="en">Mission accomplished</article-title>
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      <p>
        <bold>EDITOR'S LETTER</bold>
      </p>
      <p>F&#225;bio Vilas-Boas</p>
      <p>Salvador, BA</p>
      <p>
        <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="back-body2">Mailing Address</xref>
      </p>
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      <p>
        <bold>Mission accomplished</bold>
      </p>
      <p>Upon taking over the position of Publisher of the <italic>Brazilian Archives of Cardiology</italic>, almost two years ago, we established a final common objective: to raise the impact factor of the Archives.</p>
      <p>Supported by a high quality staff of co-publishers (Fernando Bacal, Amanda G. M. R. Sousa, Antonio Carlos Pereira-Barretto, Carisi Polanczyk, Gilson S. Feitosa, Iran Castro, Maur&#237;cio I. Scanavacca, Paulo R. S. Brofman, Paulo A. Lotufo, Paulo R. F. Rossi e Paulo J. F. Tucci), in addition to the support given by the SBC (Brazilian Society of Cardiology) Board through its Communications Director, Carlos V. Serrano Jr., and Chair, Jos&#233; P&#233;ricles Esteves, we have implemented several changes in the management of the journal, aiming at improving its quality.</p>
      <p>The last two years witnessed the greatest feat of the entire history of the <italic>Archives</italic>. The journal became the only Cardiology publication in Latin America to be recognized by the world's most respected accrediting institution: the <italic>Science Citation Index Expanded</italic> from <italic>Thomson Scientific</italic>, the former ISI. This was one of the greatest achievements of the present publishers' staff, but, which is the result of many years of work and the consequence of a process which started in previous administrations which greatly contributed to the improvement of the journal. With this recognition, our publication will now be qualified by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) as Qualis International B _ the necessary classification for permission to publish doctoral theses. As of now, the <italic>Archives</italic> will be able to absorb the best works of Brazilian post-graduate courses, which will impact both the volume of articles received and the quality of the publication.</p>
      <p>After having diagnosed the main problems of the journal, the technical and co-publishing staff implemented several measures, of which a highlight is the creation of web pages, thus eliminating the long line of approved articles and shortening the time between submission and publication to standards similar to those of few cardiology journals worldwide. We adopted technical procedures to give a more professional character to the process, so that the publication would achieve greater publishing freedom. The selection of new revisors, who are more involved in academic activities, and the increase in rigour in the acceptance of articles have also contributed to enhance the quality of the <italic>Archives</italic>. The declaration of conflict of interests has become mandatory, and so has the declaration of financing sources and academic linking, thus guaranteeing more transparency and credibility to the <italic>Archives</italic>. These data will enable us to follow up on the evolution of the profile of the articles to be published in the years to come.</p>
      <p>We created a set of working norms for the journal, which now governs the publication according to international parameters, established by the <italic>Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals</italic> of the <italic>International Committee of Medical Journal Editors</italic>. We included the journal in the Bylaws of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC), and we created the Board of Governors of the Archives (ConDArq), which will guarantee publishing and managerial freedom. This council, which will now manage the journal, is comprised of former publishers and of the coordinators of the top three post-graduate Cardiology courses as evaluated by CAPES. Since these are the main institutions responsible for scientific production in the country, we are, with this closer connection, contributing to improving the process of Cardiology research in Brazil. The next years will witness the result of these changes, now that the journal will have its impact factor assessed.</p>
      <p>The hiring of the chief publisher through a public selection process is a victory of the Brazilian academic community. Until recently, the position was filled with a nomination by the SBC board; from now on, it will be based on technical and scientific criteria. This change is valid for the professionals who will work as of 2010 with a four-year term in office. The choice was made by a high-quality staff, by means of C.V. analysis and a public oral examination.</p>
      <p>Thus, on behalf of all the technical and publishing staff who worked during the last two years, we would like to thank the trust and the prestige of the researchers who have submitted articles and of the colleagues who have done the editing of these articles with total dedication. Were it not for them, the <italic>Archives</italic> would not have reached its current high position.</p>
      <p>Cordially yours,</p>
      <p>F&#225;bio Vilas-Boas</p>
      <p>Chief Publisher</p>
      <p>
        <fn id="back-body2" fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Mailing Address:</p>
          <p> F&#225;bio Vilas-Boas</p>
          <p>Hospital Espanhol - Servi&#231;o de Cardiologia</p>
          <p> Av. Sete de Setembro, 2152/2002</p>
          <p> 40080-002 - Salvador - BA - Brazil</p>
          <p> Email: </p>
          <p>
            <email xlink:href="fabiovboas@cardiol.br">fabiovboas@cardiol.br</email>
          </p>
        </fn>
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