Christian KielingSeptember 2010
INDEXATION ACHIEVED: WHAT’S NEXT?
WHY TO BE INDEXED
WHY TO BE INDEXED
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 2008
1998-New editors-in-chief (Jair Mari and Euripedes Miguel) appointed by the Brazilian Psychiatric Association
-Professional executive editorship is created
1999-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) - www.scielo.br/rbp
-Decision to publish to annual supplements to meet educational needs
1999 – SciELO
HOW RBP GOT THERE
Mari & Miguel, Rev Bras Psiq 2008
2000-All original articles are reviewed by a statistician
2001-Technical review and translation into English of all original articles
2002-Original articles submitted in English
2003-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 2008
2005-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 2008
2006-RBP begins to publish online in-press articles (ahead of publication) in Medline
-Creation of an exclusive website www.rbpbrasil.org.br
-Creation of a RBP newsletter
2007-Implementation of a first online submission system (developed by SciELO)
2008-First impact factor: 1.225 (the highest among biomedical journals in Latin America)
2009-A new online submission system is implemented (ScholarOne Manuscripts)
SUBMISSION SYSTEM
SUBMISSION SYSTEM
IMPACT FACTOR
RBP
Kieling & Gonçalves, Rev Bras Psiquiatr 29(2) 2007
1.391(2009)
1.225(2007)
1.318(2008)
IMPACT FACTOR
Kieling & Gonçalves, Rev Bras Psiquiatr 29(2) 2007
ALGORITHM
ALGORITHM
LIMITATIONS
LIMITATIONS
Munafò, Mol Psychiatry 2009
Kieling et al, unpublishedNillsson, 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
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
http://beta.cell.com
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 MoriyamaSecretary: Fernanda Vergueiro
EQUATOR
http://www.equator-network.org