The Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia now and discussion on the new classification of brazilian journals

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 regarding the Qualis classification of CAPES remains a matter of widespread debate and controversy. A recent event of FAPESP/SciELO, highlighted the progress of Brazil in respect to global scientific production as we had already discussed in issue n° 3 of the RBHH this year.(1) In an atmosphere of jingoism, several editors presented measures they adopted for their journals to be included in the Thomson Reuters/ISI/JCR database, the most prestigious among all existing databases and the one responsible for calculating the famous Impact Factor. The measures used are all basically the same and already known to most participants. They include professionalization of the journal, publishing in English to increase international visibility and massive investment to improve the quality of content, in addition to trivial details, such as care with the frequency and quality of printing. With this, in few years, Brazil now has 89 scientific journals in all fields of the Thomson Reuters/ISI/JCR database. Several aspects were mentioned and a presentation by the representative of the University of Granada, Spain responsible for SCImago, emphasized the importance of Brazil and suggested adopting different approaches within the editorial market such as partnerships especially between scientific groups in Brazil and other countries in order to produce material with greater appeal and international impact. Examples of the influence of international publishers as well as criticism of the current Qualis classification were presented by another speaker(2-4) (Table 1).