Evaluation of articles on pulmonology published in Brazilian journals other than the Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology.

Pulmonary research recently published in Brazilian journals.

We reviewed original articles in the field of pulmonary medicine that had been recently published in 12 Brazilian journals--general or specialty journals--excluding the Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology. All were journals indexed for the Institute for Scientific Information Web of Knowledge. The selection of articles was based on the "continuously variable rating" concept. We have organized the ...

The impact factor for the Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology is arriving.

Using the same methodology as that employed by Thomson Reuters, SCImago estimates that the current impact factor for the BJP is 0.97 (Figure 1). The difference between the two indices lies in the fact that there are a greater number of journals in the SciVerse Scopus database, which is used by the SCImago, and this has a strong and significant correlation.(2) Figure 1 shows the SCImago rank cla...

Portuguese Journal of Pulmonology and Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology-"Aquele Abraço" ("A Great Big Hug")

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1806-37132014000600001 been a clear predominance of original articles on different topics in respiratory disease and by different Brazilian research groups, other types of articles, such as editorials, at the request of the editorial board, have been published.(4) The highest number of logins to the PJP website also originates from Brazil.(3) The history of the scient...

International participation in collaborative studies published in pulmonology journals: where does the Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology rank?

Gratitude for my time at the Jornal de Pneumologia

I was the editor of the Journal of Pulmonology from 1999 to 2002, a time during which the editor was also the Director of Communications of the Brazilian Thoracic Association (BTA), elected on a joint ticket in BTA elections. I worked in the administrations of Francisco Elmano Marques de Souza and Luiz Carlos Correia da Silva, both of whom lent me their full support. Both also accepted the fact...