Christian Kieling September 2010 INDEXATION ACHIEVED: WHAT’S NEXT?

WHY TO BE INDEXED

Kieling, Chen, Regier, and Rohde, in prep

INDEXATION DATABASES

HOW RBP GOT THERE

“DOUBLE” MISSION To disseminate the evidence based reviews and guidelines for clinical practice in local language to contribute to the update of mental health professionals in Brazil and neighbor countries. To provide visibility of the Brazilian and Latin American [and LAMIC] scientific production in the field of mental health.

HOW RBP GOT THERE Mari & Miguel, Rev Bras Psiq New editors-in-chief (Jair Mari and Euripedes Miguel) appointed by the Brazilian Psychiatric Association -Professional executive editorship is created The name of the journal changes to Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria -Change in the national and international boards based on criteria of scientific productivity -Indexation in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) - -Decision to publish to annual supplements to meet educational needs

1999 – SciELO

HOW RBP GOT THERE Mari & Miguel, Rev Bras Psiq All original articles are reviewed by a statistician Technical review and translation into English of all original articles Original articles submitted in English Executive secretary in charge of managing the editorial process -RBP is indexed in Index Medicus/Medline

2003 – MEDLINE

HOW RBP GOT THERE Mari & Miguel, Rev Bras Psiq The number of original articles are fixed in 10 per issue, published only in English -Review and update articles are published in Portuguese -Supplements start being published in Portuguese (printed version) and both Portuguese and English (online version) -Fast-track policy for articles considered as having an exceptional quality is implemented -A native English speaker is in charge of reviewing the language -RBP is indexed in the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)

2005 – ISI

HOW RBP GOT THERE Mari & Miguel, Rev Bras Psiq RBP begins to publish online in-press articles (ahead of publication) in Medline -Creation of an exclusive website -Creation of a RBP newsletter Implementation of a first online submission system (developed by SciELO) First impact factor: (the highest among biomedical journals in Latin America) A new online submission system is implemented (ScholarOne Manuscripts)

SUBMISSION SYSTEM

IMPACT FACTOR

RBP Kieling & Gonçalves, Rev Bras Psiquiatr 29(2) (2009) (2007) (2008)

IMPACT FACTOR

Kieling & Gonçalves, Rev Bras Psiquiatr 29(2) 2007 ALGORITHM

LIMITATIONS

Munafò, Mol Psychiatry 2009

Kieling et al, unpublished Nillsson, Act Psych Scand 116(2) 2007 CITATIONS

CITATION CURVE

IF IN PSYCHIATRY IF are associated with other factors –area of knowledge citations/article density turnover t½ approximately 7 years –cited half-life (received): 6.9 years –citing half-life (granted): 7,3 years Kieling & Gonçalves, Rev Bras Psiquiatr 29(2) 2007

-The editorial board was completely reformulated, increasing the representation of international investigators. -To deal with political pressures, scientific productivity was included as a criterion to select participants in the board. -The editorial board comprises 71 members: 37 from Brazil, 12 from United States, nine from England, and four from other Latin American countries. EDITORIAL BOARD

The Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria is now a quarterly publication with two additional supplements dealing with topics of clinical practice and directed to update clinicians and mental health professionals. The journal costs around US$ 200,000 yearly, but 90% of these costs are covered by the pharmaceutical industry (the remaining comes from the Brazilian Research Council). RBP’s acceptation index reaches now 30%of submitted articles. RBP

Inclusion of members in the editorial board based on scientific productivity in the last five years. An international board comprised by recognized investigators and truly related to the journal activities. A rigid publishing timetable supported by a reliable income and stable editorial staff including clear succession plans. Publishing original articles in English with free electronic access, and publishing educational and review articles in the original language. Another important procedure was to invest in training current staff as well as future members of editorial teams. Since 2004, the journal created three trainee editor positions for young investigators. Each of them works together with two senior editors learning the skills of scientific and peer review editing.

Our activity has been developed in great harmony with ABP (Brazilian Psychiatry Association), reflecting a mature and understanding of its institutional role. We also have to acknowledge that no progress could have been accomplished without the quantitative and qualitative growth of the Brazilian scientific production (associated to the expansion of post- graduate programs) and to the subsequent formation of researchers in the country, which has been translated not only in the submission of high-quality articles, but also in the high level of discernment of our reviewers. RBP

FUTURE

PSYCHIATRY 2.0

FUTURE

RBP – FUTURE

FUTURE OF LMIC JOURNALS - Indexation is only the first step - Common problems and difficulties - Solutions could be built together - editorial board exchange - staff training - allocation of resources (eg, website, submission systems, language review) - Network of editors – continued work

THANK YOU Trainee Editors: Giovanni Salum and Taís Moriyama Secretary: Fernanda Vergueiro

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