INDEXATION ACHIEVED: WHAT’S NEXT?
Christian Kieling
September 2010
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
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
Mari & Miguel, Rev Bras Psiq 2008
1999 – SciELO
HOW RBP GOT THERE
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
Mari & Miguel, Rev Bras Psiq 2008
2003 – MEDLINE
HOW RBP GOT THERE
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)
Mari & Miguel, Rev Bras Psiq 2008
2005 – ISI
HOW RBP GOT THERE
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)
Mari & Miguel, Rev Bras Psiq 2008
SUBMISSION SYSTEM
SUBMISSION SYSTEM
IMPACT FACTOR
1.391
RBP
(2009)
1.225
(2007)
1.318
(2008)
Kieling & Gonçalves, Rev Bras Psiquiatr 29(2) 2007
IMPACT FACTOR
ALGORITHM
Kieling & Gonçalves, Rev Bras Psiquiatr 29(2) 2007
ALGORITHM
LIMITATIONS
LIMITATIONS
Munafò, Mol Psychiatry 2009
CITATIONS
Kieling et al, unpublished
Nillsson, Act Psych Scand 116(2) 2007
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
EDITORIAL BOARD
- 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.
RBP
• 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.
RBP
•
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 postgraduate 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.
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 Moriyama
Secretary: Fernanda Vergueiro
EQUATOR
http://www.equator-network.org