The JBP and sleep medicine

1. Laboratório do Sono, Disciplina de Pneumologia, Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (SP) Brasil. Sleep medicine is a relatively new discipline that has begun to consolidate as an important area of activity for pulmonologists, in Brazil as well as in the rest of the world. The JBP has been a part of this transformation, as evidenced by the increasing number of submissions and publications related to the field of sleep medicine. Although we are still a month away from the end of the year, the number of submissions to the JBP in 2016 has already hit a record, growing by 18% in comparison with 2013. Even more significant was the increase in the number of submissions related to sleep medicine, which increased from 8 in 2013 to 16 (to date) in 2016. The increasing interest in the JBP, together with an increase in the quality of the articles submitted, demonstrates the maturing of the sleep medicine community in Brazil.(1,2)