Brazilian scientific journals must be professionalized

Cardiology in Brazilian scientific journals: an overview.

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...

Brazilian scientific journals: challenges, (dis)incentives and one fundamental question

Impact factor, scientific production and quality of Brazilian medical journals.

Scientific Methods Must Be Public, and Descriptive Experience Sampling Qualifies

Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel’s groundbreaking book, Describing Inner Experience: Proponent Meets Skeptic, examines a research method called Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES). DES, which was developed by Hurlburt and collaborators, works roughly as follows. An investigator gives a subject a random beeper. During the day, as the subject hears a beep, she writes a description of her conscious exp...

[Commitment Must Be Shared].

The Colombian Association of Psychiatry continues to work in different areas (professional and scientific issues) with the aim of improving the profession for its members. As you will have noted, from the scientific standpoint, the journal, as a means of communicating the knowledge base generated by mental health professionals, both national and international, strives for continued improvement ...