EDITORS' NOTE
One more step to increase the internationalization and visibility of the RBP Psychiatry
Starting on this issue, RBP Psychiatry will be edited and published by Elsevier, recognized as the foremost publishing house of medical and scientific literature in the world. Elsevier, founded in 1880, publishes over two thousand scientific journals, which represents approximately 25% of world production, and always with excellent editorial quality. Among journals of high relevance in psychiatry and mental health areas published by Elsevier are the Schizophrenia Research, and the Journal of Affective Disorders and Biological Psychiatry, in addition to the prestigious The Lancet.
With this change, the articles submission platform will soon no longer be manuscript central from ScholarOne®, and new submissions will start to be received by Elsevier Editorial System (EES) platform in a customized page exclusively devoted to the RBP Psychiatry. This migration will provide more agility and efficiency to publish accepted articles, which will be online sooner after approval, increasing their visibility and potential citation. Furthermore, all content of the RBP Psychiatry will still have open access in SciELO system.
The partnership with Elsevier can be considered another step of the RBP Psychiatry to increase its internationalization and visibility. We can mention many other important previous actions with this purpose such as indexing RBP Psychiatry in SciELO in 1999, in Index Medicus® /Medline® in 2003 and, finally, in the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Thomson Reuters® - Journal Citation Reports in 2005, which enabled the journal's impact factor evaluation. This year, RBP Psychiatry reached the biggest impact factor in Latin America and the second biggest of Southern Hemisphere in psychiatry and neurosciences areas, reducing mentions of their own articles (Crippa et al, 2011).
We believe that this new change can extend the RBP Psychiatry mission on publishing articles of high scientific relevance in global mental health, now with even more editorial efficiency and international visibility.
José Alexandre S. Crippa
Rodrigo A. Bressan
Giovanni Abrahão Salum
João Quevedo
Christian Kieling
Marcelo Queiroz Hoexter
Tais Moriyama
Marcos Hortes N. Chagas
Leonardo Fontenelle
Guilherme Vanoni Polanczyk
Marcelo Pio de Almeida Fleck
- Crippa JA, Bressan RA, Salum GA, Quevedo J, Kieling C, Hoexter MQ, Moriyama T, Chagas MH, Fontenelle L, Polanczyk GV, Fleck MP. RBP increases its impact factor again and is progressively more cited in other journals. Rev Bras Psiquiatr. 2011;33(3):218.
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
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Date of issue
Dec 2011
