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Agência FAPESP* –By Mônica Pileggi
Agência FAPESP – The new edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR), released by Thomson Reuters, lists 10,196 scientific publications from 84 countries, some 103 of which from Brazil. The report reveals that 35 of the 1,075 publications that received an impact factor ranking for the first time were Brazilian.
JCR has released an annual impact factor ranking for international scientific periodicals since 1972. The report serves as an evaluation tool for magazines and is a collection of data from the Institute for Scientific Information – ISI Web of Knowledge, whose objective is accumulating and tabulating articles and citations from diverse specialized areas of science, technology and the social sciences.
The impact factor is calculated based on the number of citations on the ISI in 2010 – referring to articles published in 2008 and 2009 – divided by the total number articles published by the magazine in the two year period.
According to Abel Packer, operational coordinator of SciELO (Bireme/FAPESP), the good performance of Brazilian periodicals can be noted since the 2009 JCR edition. “The emergence of new national periodicals in 2007 in the ISI base has contributed significantly to an increase in the number of articles and citations from Brazilian authors,” he told Agência FAPESP.
Among the Brazilian journals indexed in the 2008 ISI edition are the Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo (São Paulo Tropical Medicine Magazine), which received an impact factor rating of 0.934.
“In our area and in Brazil, we are behind only Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Memories of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute), the oldest magazine on the subject,” notes professor Thales de Brito, editor of the publication that has just been evaluated.
Brito attributed the evaluation to the increased number of international reviewers and the publication language; Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo has been released in English since 1995. According to the professor, this facilitates reading and citation of the articles.  “It is the established scientific language of communication and has well-known technical jargon,” he said.
Since it began publishing its editions in English, the magazine has received articles submitted by researchers from other countries, like Argentina, Peru and Costa Rica. “We also have works from Nigeria, Iran and Turkey. They are countries with endemic problems similar to ours,” he stresses.
Other Brazilian magazines that entered the JCR ranking are: Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular (The Brazilian Cardiovascular Surgery Magazine) with a 0.963 impact factor; Brazilian Journal of Biology (0.625), the Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Esporte (The Brazilian Sports Medicine Magazine) with 0.445; and the Bioscience Journal (0.203).
Among the Brazilian periodicals that had been previously indexed and well evaluated in JCR’s new edition is the Journal of Applied Oral Science (JAOS), whose impact factor leapt almost threefold from 0.386 in the previous edition to 0.966. 
For professor Carlos Ferreira dos Santos, editor of JAOS— formerly the Revista da Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru (Odontology School Magazine of Bauru) published by Universidade de São Paulo—who took over the magazine with task of internationalizing it, English was fundamental for increasing the impact factor.
In 2006, the magazine stopped being bi-lingual and moved to publication solely in English. Another goal highlighted by Santos is increasing the base of foreign authors and reviewers.
“Today, nearly 70% of reviewers are foreigners and 30% are Brazilian. Furthermore, we receive many articles from the European Union, followed by the United States, Asia and Oceania. This coupled with open access to the full version of the articles on the SciELO base has contributed to increase the Journal of Applied Oral Science’s impact factor,” he said.
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<p><b>By Mônica Pileggi</b></p>
<p><b>Agência FAPESP –</b> The new edition of <i>Journal Citation Reports </i>(<i>JCR</i>), released by Thomson Reuters, lists 10,196 scientific publications from 84 countries, some 103 of which from Brazil. The report reveals that 35 of the 1,075 publications that received an impact factor ranking for the first time were Brazilian.</p>
<p><i>JCR</i> has released an annual impact factor ranking for international scientific periodicals since 1972. The report serves as an evaluation tool for magazines and is a collection of data from the Institute for Scientific Information – ISI Web of Knowledge, whose objective is accumulating and tabulating articles and citations from diverse specialized areas of science, technology and the social sciences.</p>
<p>The impact factor is calculated based on the number of citations on the ISI in 2010 – referring to articles published in 2008 and 2009 – divided by the total number articles published by the magazine in the two year period.</p>
<p>According to Abel Packer, operational coordinator of SciELO (Bireme/FAPESP), the good performance of Brazilian periodicals can be noted since the 2009 <i>JCR</i> edition. “The emergence of new national periodicals in 2007 in the ISI base has contributed significantly to an increase in the number of articles and citations from Brazilian authors,” he told <b>Agência FAPESP.</b></p>
<p>Among the Brazilian journals indexed in the 2008 ISI edition are the<i> Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo </i>(<i>São Paulo Tropical Medicine Mag</i>azine), which received an impact factor rating of 0.934.</p>
<p>“In our area and in Brazil, we are behind only <i>Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz</i> (<i>Memories of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute</i>), the oldest magazine on the subject,” notes professor Thales de Brito, editor of the publication that has just been evaluated.</p>
<p>Brito attributed the evaluation to the increased number of international reviewers and the publication language; <i>Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo </i>has been released in English since 1995. According to the professor, this facilitates reading and citation of the articles.  “It is the established scientific language of communication and has well-known technical jargon,” he said.</p>
<p>Since it began publishing its editions in English, the magazine has received articles submitted by researchers from other countries, like Argentina, Peru and Costa Rica. “We also have works from Nigeria, Iran and Turkey. They are countries with endemic problems similar to ours,” he stresses.</p>
<p>Other Brazilian magazines that entered the<i> JCR</i> ranking are: <i>Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular </i>(<i>The Brazilian Cardiovascular Surgery Magazine</i>) with a 0.963 impact factor; <i>Brazilian Journal of Biology </i>(0.625), the <i>Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Esporte </i>(<i>The Brazilian Sports Medicine Magazine</i>) with 0.445; and the<i> Bioscience Journal</i> (0.203).</p>
<p>Among the Brazilian periodicals that had been previously indexed and well evaluated in JCR’s new edition is the <i>Journal of Applied Oral Science </i>(<i>JAOS</i>), whose impact factor leapt almost threefold from 0.386 in the previous edition to 0.966. </p>
<p>For professor Carlos Ferreira dos Santos, editor of <i>JAOS</i>— formerly the <i>Revista da Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru </i>(<i>Odontology School Magazine of Bauru</i>) published by Universidade de São Paulo—who took over the magazine with task of internationalizing it, English was fundamental for increasing the impact factor.</p>
<p>In 2006, the magazine stopped being bi-lingual and moved to publication solely in English. Another goal highlighted by Santos is increasing the base of foreign authors and reviewers.</p>
<p>“Today, nearly 70% of reviewers are foreigners and 30% are Brazilian. Furthermore, we receive many articles from the European Union, followed by the United States, Asia and Oceania. This coupled with open access to the full version of the articles on the SciELO base has contributed to increase the Journal of Applied Oral Science’s impact factor,” he said.</p>
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