Armanda Álvaro Alberto: uma Educadora e Feminista Brasileira – a Lacuna Inaceitável da História

[Revista Brasileira de História da Medicina, a pioneer in medical historiography].

I(It? This?) presents the general characteristics of the Revista Brasileira de História da Medicina, which contributed for the emergence of the field of medicine history in Brazil by inciting bibliographic production on the subject. The purpose of our analysis is to foster research on the history of medicine and of the sciences. From the description of the editorial aspects of the journal one c...

O espectro de uma terceira onda: questões e desafios da educação formal em IHC em uma instituição brasileira

We present in this article some reflections on the challenges of developing an HCI education aligned on the so called HCI third wave. We discuss the necessary perspective of such an endeavor in order to ground a curriculum reformulation under development at UTFPR, Curitiba. We address the tensions between the established curricula recommendations from one side, and the cultural, axiological, po...

Exclusion and bioethics: a Brazilian perspective Exclusão e bioética: uma perspectiva brasileira

Assessing the quality of a scientific journal: the case of Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria Avaliando a qualidade de uma revista científica: o caso da Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria

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...

Papel da informatização na pequena e média empresa brasileira: investimentos em TI, percepção da gestão e impacto nos resultados

In this competitive environment globalized that we live nowadays there is a growing recognition of the central role of Information Technology (IT) to determine the success of the company, leading to better results. SMEs have also adopted IT with the same purpose, obtaining benefits of such use, but their reality is quite different in most cases of the large enterprises, especially for lack of t...