The
dynamics of Jornal Vascular Brasileiro
(Portuguese
PDF version)
Telmo
Pedro Bonamigo1
1.
Editor-in-chief, Jornal Vascular Brasileiro.
J
Vasc Br 2002;1(1):03-04
For
years we have been aware of an inconsistency between the unquestionable scientific
weight of the Brazilian Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery (SBACV) and
the reduced number of publications by its members. There are several reasons for
this, but this is not the time to list them. On the contrary, this is a moment
to celebrate the launch of Jornal Vascular Brasileiro (J Vasc Br). It is
time to join efforts to continue a long-term project and, with the creation of
J Vasc Br, to ensure that all will have a place to publish their papers, provided
they meet the basic requirements of the guidelines for authors and meet with the
approval of our reviewers.
For
this initial number, we count on invited works. However, since the beginning of
this process, we have already received several spontaneous submissions. We expect
that we will soon start to receive contributions from vascular surgery residency
programs and other graduate programs, with their great potential to produce publishable
works. Similarly, we aim at publicizing the materials of vascular surgery services,
which have a large tradition in assistance. Yet another important source of manuscripts
will probably be the vascular surgery courses from the several schools of medicine
in Brazil, in addition to regional vascular surgery reference centers. Finally,
we also count on the individual contributions of surgeons and practitioners who
provide individualized medical assistance but who, along the years, have accumulated
a large experience that will be very useful to all of us.
The
responsibility of editing J Vasc Br is not restricted to the Editorial Board and
to the SBACV Board, which made this publication feasible - rather, it should be
viewed as a task to be carried out by all members. Therefore, we would like to
invite all of you to engage in this process.
J
Vasc Br has chosen to follow the Vancouver publication guidelines. Attention to
these rules when submitting a paper is very important to simplify the process
of selecting and reviewing works. In time, we will seek to list our journal in
the most important indexing sources, which we know is a hard task, but we believe
not an impossible one. Therefore, we will give special priority to the publication
of original articles, which are to constitute more than 50% of our published contents.
Case reports will be limited in the print version, but soon there will be an alternative
space for publication of interesting case reports.
J
Vasc Br will try to publish all official SBACV Forums. In the current issue, we
feature our first SBACV forum, available
in Portuguese. This forum was coordinated by Professors Pedro Puech Leão
and Solange S. M. Evangelista.
We
will also publish international guidelines and consensus-type articles about subjects
of broad interest. Along these lines, we have already received authorization to
publish the recently released international guidelines on Prevention of venous
thromboembolism, kindly forwarded to us by Professor A. Nicolaides thanks
to the special engagement of our colleague Dr. Márcio Castro e Silva, to
whom J Vasc Br is grateful, and from whom we hope to receive other similar contributions.
Another
important innovation is the translation into English and publication on the Internet
of all articles from the print version. This will allow our contributors to more
easily make their work known worldwide. The online version of J Vasc Br will also
have room for case reports. In addition, those authors who wish to see their work
in English in the printed version are welcome to submit their manuscripts in that
language.
It
is important to emphasize that the current SBACV Board views J Vasc Br as an investment,
and because of that the journal will be distributed free of charge, not only to
members but also to colleagues from other related fields, with the objective of
making our specialty better known and valued. Therefore, please remember to recommend
and send us the address of at least two colleagues from other areas that you believe
will be interested in reading J Vasc Br so that we can include them in our mailing
list.
Finally,
I would like to thank all the members of the Editorial Board who have agreed to
donate their time and work to ensure the success of this endeavor, and all SBACV
members, who will raise J Vasc Br to the standards of our Society by making it
one of the best publications in its field.
