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TheBrazilianOrthopaedicJournal(RBO)hasbeenincludedin PubMed,afteralonganddifficultselectionprocess.

Severalrecognitionsmustbegivenregardingthisvictory ofourjournalinthepublishingfieldandthus,letusjust enu-meratethemwithoutorderofimportance.

- to our publisher,Elsevier and its international structure, whichhadgreatparticipationintheprocess,bypublishing ourworksaccordingtoPubMedstandardsandguidingus throughouttherequirements;

- to our authors, who, by submitting increasingly better-quality works,increasedthejournal’slevel and madeits selectionpossible;

- tooureditors,whoselectedandguidedthedraftingofthe works;

- andtoallindividualsdirectlylinkedtoRBOproduction.

The Brazilian Orthopedics professionals would like to thankallofyou.

Initially, studiespublished in2014and 2015are already indexedandavailable,butthecurrentboardauthorizedthe investmentrequiredtoindexallstudiespublishedfrom2009 to2013andthus,completethecollectionofpublicationsfrom recentyears.

Todate,ourpositionregardingtheeditorialboardwasto constructa journal that depicted Brazilianorthopedics. In somesituations,wepublishedstudies which, althoughdid nothaveveryhighquality,depictedourreality.Atothertimes, wereturnedpapersseveraltimes,untiltheauthorimproved the manuscript,as webelieved that author was a promis-ingone,or thatagrouprepresentedanimportantregional reality.

When theindexing wasaccomplished, weanalyzedthe rightswehaveacquiredandfoundthat,withoutdoubt,the internationalizationof Brazilianorthopedics was the main gain.

Our studies will be availableto be read, consulted and appraisedworldwide.

Wehavegreatconcernsaboutthisappraisal,asourstudies haveneverbeenpresentedsoopenlybefore.

Thanks to globalization, we will receive studies from around the world, which will compete with ours in the appraisalprocesstobepublishedinRBO.

Wecurrentlyhavegreatdifficultytocirculateourdomestic production,havingadelayofalmostoneyear.Howwillthe influxofmorestudiesoccur?

Wehaveaspacelimitationthatisconsideredadequateby ourpublisher.Thislimitationisnoteconomical,but techni-cal,asitestablishesasizeforRBOthatiscompatiblewithits scientificproduction.

AnexampleofglobalizationoccurredwiththeClinics jour-nal,publishedbyHospitaldasClínicasdaFMUSP,whichnow receives35%ofChineseand20%ofTurkishstudies,compared to35%ofBrazilianstudies.

Inthis firstmonthofindexing,wereceivedavery well-structured Iranian study, on the incidence of vitamin D measurementdecreaseintheIranianpopulation.Howshould we proceed–should wepublishthis study,instead ofone carriedoutinBrazil?

Togetherwiththerights,wehavetodealwiththe obliga-tions,aswehavetopositionourselvesinasimilarwayasall thejournalsthatareatthesamelevelwehavereached.

Thatmeanstoregulatethenumberofauthors,limit cita-tionstoamorerecentperiod,avoidcasereports,andfavor originalstudies;inshort,tofollowastricterandless patron-izingeditorialline.

Wecurrentlyhavea35%rejectionrateonaverageand, aim-ing toavoidpublication delay and topositionourselvesas otherorthopedicjournalsdoinPubMed,wemustsoonreach 50%ofrejection.

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Majorchallengesawaitusinthis newperiodthatstarts now,butwearecertainwewillovercomethemandfindthe bestwaysothattheRevistaBrasileiradeOrtopediawillnot becometheBrazilianOrthopaedicJournal.

GilbertoLuisCamanho RevistaBrasileiradeOrtopedia

E-mail:[email protected]

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rboe.2015.10.010