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

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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