Editorial
The Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins [ 1Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins (1995–2002 archive hosted by SciELO)
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0104-7930&lng=en&nrm=iso
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=s...
], ISSN 0104–7930, was established in 1995 as the first
electronic Brazilian scientific journal, maintained and edited by the Center for the Study
of Venoms and Venomous Animals [ 2Center for the Study of Venoms and Venomous Animals. São Paulo State
University; http://www.cevap.org.br
http://www.cevap.org.br...
] of UNESP. It has
always been written in English and published twice a year, at first distributed on
3.5” diskettes. As the journal took to CD-Rom format in 1998, it was selected to
participate in the SciELO Project [ 3SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) Brazil.
http://www.scielo.br
http://www.scielo.br...
]. In 2003,
tropical diseases were included within its scope in order to provide more comprehensive
content. It was thereafter entitled Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including
Tropical Diseases (JVATiTD) with ISSN 1678–9199. The journal finally
became online-only [ 4JVATiTD former website. http://www.jvat.org.br
http://www.jvat.org.br...
] and was published every four
months in 2004. From 2005, JVATiTD began publishing on a quarterly basis and was selected in
2006 to take part in the Science Citation Index Expanded ™ [ 5Science Citation Index ExpandedTM.
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/science_citation_index_expanded
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_servi...
] and Scopus® [ 6Scopus. http://www.scopus.com/home.url
http://www.scopus.com/home.url...
], with inclusion in the EBSCO database [ 7EBSCO. http://www.ebsco.com/index.asp
http://www.ebsco.com/index.asp...
] in 2010.
JVATiTD has been experiencing significant growth since 2006, in which year 52 articles were published with a rejection rate of 11.86%. The rejection rate has subsequently increased year after year, reaching 41.33% in 2012. The average elapsed time between submission and acceptance from 2007 to 2012 was 135, 139, 133, 88, 86 and 78 days; the respective elapsed time between acceptance and publication was: 196, 143, 170, 132, 95 and 84 days; the overall time between submission and publication was: 331, 282, 303, 220, 181 and 162 days.
Thus, the elapsed time between submission and acceptance is shorter than the one between acceptance and publication. This analysis leads to the conclusion that the speed and visibility of publication have risen significantly in the last five years, given that the current average time between submission and publication is similar to that of journals with higher global impact, that is, only 162 days.
As a consequence of these achievements, there has been a substantial increase in the
submission of articles, especially after indexing of the journal in the Journal Citation
Reports® (JCR) [ 8Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports®.
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/journal_citation_reports
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_servi...
]. JVATiTD received an
impact factor of 0.436 in the 2007 JCR which has remained stable since then. Recently, the
journal was reclassified by the Brazilian program WebQualis by CAPES [ 9WebQualis by CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível
Superior) http://qualis.capes.gov.br/webqualis/principal.seam
http://qualis.capes.gov.br/webqualis/pri...
] in the following strata: A2: Geography; B1: Agrarian Sciences I,
Nursing, Engineering III and Interdisciplinary; B2: Biodiversity, Food Science, Veterinary
Medicine, Engineering II and IV; B3: Medicine I, II and III, Odontology, Public Health,
Pharmacy and Public Health; B4: Biotechnology.
Finally, a partnership with BioMed Central [ 10BioMed Central. http://www.biomedcentral.com
http://www.biomedcentral.com...
]
– The Open Access Publisher – will begin in 2013 [ 11JVATiTD. http://www.jvat.org
http://www.jvat.org...
]. It has all come as a consequence of our impact factor stability
over the last five years and indexing in the following databases: PubMed [ 12PubMED. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed...
], PubMed Central [ 13PubMED Central. http://www.pubmedcentral.org
http://www.pubmedcentral.org...
], SciELO [ 3SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) Brazil.
http://www.scielo.br
http://www.scielo.br...
], Science Citation
Index Expanded
TM[ 5Science Citation Index ExpandedTM.
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/science_citation_index_expanded
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_servi...
], e-Depot (National Library of the
Netherlands digital archive) [ 14e-Depot.
http://www.kb.nl/en/expertise/e-depot-and-digital-preservation
http://www.kb.nl/en/expertise/e-depot-an...
], CrossRef [ 15CrossRef. http://www.crossref.org
http://www.crossref.org...
], Quertle [ 16Quertle. http://www.quertle.info
http://www.quertle.info...
], SCIRUS [ 17SCIRUS. http://www.scirus.com
http://www.scirus.com...
] and Webcite [ 18Webcite. http://www.webcitation.org
http://www.webcitation.org...
].
This partnership with BioMed Central will, beyond the shadow of a doubt, increase our impact factor and, consequently, improve our journal classification worldwide.
Competing interest
The author declares no conflicts of interest.
- Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins (1995–2002 archive hosted by SciELO) http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0104-7930&lng=en&nrm=iso
» http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0104-7930&lng=en&nrm=iso - Center for the Study of Venoms and Venomous Animals. São Paulo State University; http://www.cevap.org.br
» http://www.cevap.org.br - SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) Brazil. http://www.scielo.br
» http://www.scielo.br - JVATiTD former website. http://www.jvat.org.br
» http://www.jvat.org.br - Science Citation Index ExpandedTM. http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/science_citation_index_expanded
» http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/science_citation_index_expanded - Scopus. http://www.scopus.com/home.url
» http://www.scopus.com/home.url - EBSCO. http://www.ebsco.com/index.asp
» http://www.ebsco.com/index.asp - Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports®. http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/journal_citation_reports
» http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/journal_citation_reports - WebQualis by CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) http://qualis.capes.gov.br/webqualis/principal.seam
» http://qualis.capes.gov.br/webqualis/principal.seam - BioMed Central. http://www.biomedcentral.com
» http://www.biomedcentral.com - JVATiTD. http://www.jvat.org
» http://www.jvat.org - PubMED. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
» http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed - PubMED Central. http://www.pubmedcentral.org
» http://www.pubmedcentral.org - e-Depot. http://www.kb.nl/en/expertise/e-depot-and-digital-preservation
» http://www.kb.nl/en/expertise/e-depot-and-digital-preservation - CrossRef. http://www.crossref.org
» http://www.crossref.org - Quertle. http://www.quertle.info
» http://www.quertle.info - SCIRUS. http://www.scirus.com
» http://www.scirus.com - Webcite. http://www.webcitation.org
» http://www.webcitation.org
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
2013
History
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Received
29 Nov 2012 -
Accepted
29 Nov 2012