Renewal: ongoing process in BJCVS.

he Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (BJCVS) closes the year 2012 with many achievements, a result of hard work of the Editorial Board, the Board of the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery and reviewers, who always are fundamental to the scientific level of our journal is growing. An example is the number of citations, always growing, reflecting the Impact Factor (IF), which rose from 0.963 in 2011 to 1.239 in that year. As I emphasized in the Editorial from Issue 2.27 [1], the goal for 2013 is to overcome 1.599 in order that we may be classified as boundless“B1” according to CAPES criteria in Medicine I, II and III. To continue our ascent, because in Scimago (the Scopus database) our index is 1.281, as described in the graph below (Fig. 1), it is necessary to continue to be cited, in addition to maintain our renewal process. One is to increase the visibility of BJCVS. For this, we are finalizing preparations for the journal is available in PubMed Central (PMC), an online repository of open access publications in the area of Health Sciences. Currently, there are 2.5 million articles, published in over 3000 journals [2].