English: the new official language of BJCVS

Braz J Cardiovasc Surg | Rev Bras Cir Cardiovasc year to complete its 30th birthday, the Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (BJCVS) brings great news to its readers. As I advanced in the last edition, from now on the journal will be published only in English. This covers not only articles, but all content, from editorial to the ads. We are taking a historic step towards increasing our internationalization and therefore we turn to raise our Impact Factor (IF), a key parameter in order to continue to receive high-level studies in Brazil and abroad. This is an irreversible process which the Brazilian scientific publications can not escape. The databases are increasingly adopting strict criteria for a journal is accepted and maintained in its collection. The same goes for development agencies, such as CAPES, requiring postgraduate programs to publish studies in journals with higher Qualis, and the CNPq, restricting its Editorial Assistance to publications indexed in PubMed, Scopus, ISI or Scielo and be at least B2 in the Qualis. SciELO released guidelines for its articles have greater international impact. As reported in FAPESP Journal (http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/2015/01/19/para-ampliar-o-impacto/), one of the goals to be met by the end of 2016, is the increased amount of articles in English. Within two years, the percentage should reach 75%. Currently, it is about 60%[1]. That is, the BJCVS anticipated this requirement! We are convinced that this decision will bring positive results very soon. I emphasize once again that English is the lingua franca of the world, as were Latin and French, and the scientists who want their studies have repercussions need to publish them in English. Otherwise, a study that could bring advances in the knowledge of a particular disease or spread a new surgical technique remains anonymous. This is the known “Publish or Editorial