My time at the JBP

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  • Carlos Roberto Ribeiro Carvalho
  • Carlos Roberto Ribeiro Carvalho
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403 It has been a few months since I completed my term as Editor-in-Chief of the Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology (BJP), and it is great to be able to write about those four years, especially as our Journal completes its 40th year in publication. In Brazil, being the editor of a scientific journal is an additional task to juggle, along with academic or health care activities. I remember the conversations I had, before my editorship, with the President of the Brazilian Thoracic Association (BTA)—Roberto Stirbulov—and with the Editor who preceded me—José Baddini Martinez. I was reluctant, because I was well aware of the huge workload and, especially, of the enormous responsibility that I would have going forward. In my first Editorial, I emphasized the fundamental work of those who had preceded me, who had succeeded in getting the BJP indexed for the major international databases. I also emphasized how important it was that we (university professors and other health professionals in the field of respiratory medicine), work together to improve the scientific quality of our Journal, in order to gain more respect at the national and international level. I committed myself to leading this mission. received its first impact factor from Journal Citation Reports (JCR), an Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge database, and this was greatly celebrated. We had been monitoring the performance of the BJP in other databases, especially Scopus, which has its own metric (SCImago Journal Rank), and we expected to fare well in the ranking. In fact, the result was highly positive, placing us in a prominent position among Brazilian scientific journals (the BJP ranked third among medical journals) and in an admirable intermediate position among all respiratory journals worldwide. In 2013, however, the BJP was excluded from the JCR list. The argument was that we had received an anomalously large number of citations in an article published in another Brazilian journal, which could artificially inflate our impact factor. That was a time of great tension. Our (temporary) exclusion led to a series of measures being taken by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES, Office for the Advancement of Higher Education), the agency that evaluates graduate programs in Brazil, and this negatively impacted its tri-annual evaluation of several of our programs. What discomforted me greatly, and even made me a little angry, was that CAPES did not allow any of …

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دوره 41  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2015