Scientific production in the field of Psychiatry is growing exponentially, as reflected by the number of scientific journals now available. Current strategies to objectively estimate the quality of a specific publication are mostly based on indexation and citation criteria. The concept of impact factor, a measure of the frequency with which an article has been cited in a particular period, is k...

Editor in Chief, Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia Milton Artur Ruiz The Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia (RBHH) is now the official organ of the Sociedade Brasileira de Oncologia Pediátrica (Brazilian Society of Pediatric Oncology – SOBOPE). With this, SOBOPE will assist us to achieve our objectives to develop and internationalize the journal. The question regardin...

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery This historical issue kicks off celebrations after 30 years of continuous publication of the Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular, known today as the Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (BJCVS). These 30 years represent the history of our Society. The journal was founded by idealists led by Dr. Adib Jatene, and they represent the pion...

The last issue of the Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia (RBHH) – Journal of Hematology and Hemotherapy – was the result of a sequence of events that began after the emergence of the new Qualis classification established by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal do Ensino Superior (CAPES) of the Brazilian Government that ranks scientific journals.(1) All journals were reclas...

OBJECTIVES To assess (a) the trend of MEDLINE citation of pediatrics articles associated with Brazilian institutions from 1990 through 2004; (b) the number of Brazilian pediatrics articles published in journals with the highest impact factor; and (c) the regional distribution of institutions. METHODS PubMed search limited to ages 0 to 18 years, English language, MEDLINE and humans subsets, Br...

Background We report the case of a 51 years old female that suffered from a systemic anaphylactic episode 5 minutes after the ingestion of manioc at the age of 50. This patient reported rhinoconjunctivitis since she was 20 years-old after contact with latex gloves and rhinoconjunctivitis and oral allergy syndrome after the ingestion of kiwi, banana and mango since the age of 30. The patient had...

Cardiology has been and is a very significant fraction of the Brazilian contribution to science. In older days, the most significant part of this work was directed to foreign periodicals, but the quasi-simultaneous emergence of SciELO and PUBMED has ordained a redirection of much of this work to Brazilian periodicals. We here survey some of this more recent contribution for the benefit of reade...

This dataset contains information on the occurrence of Neotropical fishes (Actinopterygii, Chondrichthyes, Sarcopterygii) collected in South America, mostly from the Brazilian Amazon. The ichthyology collections of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG: http://www.museu-goeldi.br/) include specimens collected between 1900 and 2014. The dataset is now available for public consultation on the Gl...

BACKGROUND Ragpickers are informal workers who collect recyclable materials to earn a small wage. Their life and working conditions are extremely difficult. We examined minor psychiatric disorders (MPD) among a cohort of ragpickers in Pelotas, a city in southern Brazil. METHODS Ragpickers were matched by sex, age, and years of schooling with a sample of non-ragpickers from the same poor neigh...

We examined the inhibitory effect of a single ingestion of bread containing resistant starch (bread containing about 6 g of resistant starch derived from tapioca per 2 slices) (test food) on the postprandial increase in blood glucose in male and female adults with a fasting blood glucose level between 100 and 140 mg/dl. Bread not containing resistant starch (placebo) was used as the control. Th...