Radiologia Brasileira - Publicação Científica Oficial do Colégio Brasileiro de Radiologia

We have received some comments and criticisms regarding articles recently published in the journal, with complaints about the great number of articles not directly related to diagnostic radiology (rather focusing on physics, quality control, radiotherapy, etc.), additionally to the small number of case reports.

Some clarification on this matter must be provided to the journal readers. The journal indexation in internationally recognized bibliographic databases has been a priority of the editors and members of the current and recent boards of directors of Colégio Brasileiro de Radiologia e Diagnóstico por Imagem. Such priority has been shared by practically all the most important national and international medical journals. Several steps must be taken to fulfill the requirements for the journal indexation in such international databases. One of such steps has been the increase in the number of original articles, considering that such articles are more heavily weighted in the qualification analysis by internationally recognized indexation databases than other categories of published articles. This is the very reason why the number of case reports and review articles has been reduced.

On the other hand, we have been receiving a proportionally smaller number of original articles on diagnostic radiology as compared with the number of articles approaching other areas of knowledge in radiology. In order to improve and achieve a more balanced proportion, it is fundamental that colleagues feel themselves encouraged to produce a greater number of original articles. Not only colleagues at the three existing Brazilian postgraduate radiology courses (UFRJ, USP and Unifesp) – historically the greatest producers of original articles –, but also colleagues at other centers of excellence (and there are many throughout the country) may decisively contribute for the concretization of this project.

Both the Editor and the CBR Board of Directors need and will continue to rely on the cooperation of our professional community members in our endeavor to make the journal eligible for indexation, but also, and much more important, useful and agreeable for our target public – the readers of Radiologia Brasileira.





Edson Marchiori
Editor for Radiologia Brasileira