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      Just-Released JCR Impact Factor Shows Strong and Steady Increase for ABC Cardiol - 1.679 - A New Historical Record

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          Dear friends from the Cardiology and Cardiovascular scientific community in Brazil and abroad, please allow me this short editorial with extraordinary news on the ABC Cardiol Journal, accompanied by data, of course. We are delighted to announce that our peer-reviewed journal of The Brazilian Society of Cardiology, the ABC Cardiol (Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia), has seen significant increase in its impact factor rating in the latest Journal of Citation Reports (JCR) release. Our impact factor went up from 1.318, released last year (2017 rate) to 1.679 this year (2018 rate), a 27% increase in one year and the highest impact factor ever for ABC Cardiol. We can see a clear and steep increase of the impact factor in Figure 1, 1 breaking the barrier of 1,5 impact factor. Articles published in the ABC Cardiol received a staggering 3000 citations in 2018 alone (Figure 2). 1 Another barrier that was broken by ABC Cardiol this year is the third Quartile. We are now ranked at the Q3 of all 136 Cardiac and Cardiovascular System journals in the World (Table 1). 1 ABC Cardiol galvanized his position of the highest ranked Journal in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science in Latin America, position that was reached and maintained since 2014 (see Table 2). 2 Figure 1 ABC Cardiol JCR Impact Factor from 2009 to 2018. Source: JCR 1 Figure 2 ABC Cardiol Total Citations per Year Source: JCR 1 Table 1 ABC Cardiol Quartiles Rank from 2009 to 2018. Source JCR 1 JCR year Cardiac and Cardiovascualr systems Rank Quartile JIF Percentile 2018 98/136 Q3 23.309 2017 106/128 Q4 17.578 2016 107/126 Q4 15.476 2015 97/124 Q4 22.177 2014 100/123 Q4 19.106 2013 96/125 Q4 23.600 2012 91/124 Q3 27.016 2011 98/117 Q4 16.667 2010 87/114 Q4 24.123 2009 63/95 Q3 34.211 Table 2 Rank in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science Journals in Latin America. Source SCIMAGO 2 Rank Title SJR SJR Quartile H index Total Docs. (2018) Total Docs. (3years) Total Refs. Total Cites (3years) Citable Docs. (3years) Cites / Doc. (2years) Ref./Doc. Country 1 Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia 0,407 Q3 45 250 595 5472 592 418 1,41 21,89 Brazil 2 Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 0,324 Q3 22 109 290 2058 234 237 0,83 18,88 Brazil 3 Jornal Vascular Brasileiro 0,158 Q4 13 61 178 1146 71 162 0,42 18,79 Brazil 4 Archivos de Cardiologia de Mexico 0,142 Q4 16 94 195 2043 46 174 0,26 21,73 Mexico 5 Revista Argentina de Cardiologia 0,127 Q4 9 109 368 1375 18 159 0,1 12,61 Argentina 6 Revista Latinoamericana de Hipertension 0,124 Q4 5 95 53 3091 25 53 0,55 32,54 Venezuela 7 Revista Colombiana de Cardiologia 0,117 Q4 8 135 411 3196 54 386 0,12 23,67 Colombia 8 Revista Brasileira de Cardiologia Invasiva 0,113 Q4 7 0 100 0 5 81 0 0 Brazil 9 Revista de la Federacion Argentina de Cardiologia 0,112 Q4 4 30 158 449 9 124 0,04 14,97 Argentina 10 Revista Mexicana de Angiologia 0,112 Q4 3 23 74 288 3 62 0,05 12,52 Mexico 11 Insuficiencia Cardiaca 0,109 Q4 5 21 77 592 3 67 0,02 28,19 Argentina 12 Revista Mexicana de Cardiologia 0,104 Q4 4 22 94 638 10 86 0,09 29 Mexico 13 Revista Mexicana de Enfermeria Cardiologica 0,101 Q4 2 0 29 0 0 24 0 0 Mexico One important aspect of the progression of our JCR impact factor is depicted in the Table 3. 1 While in the same period of 2017 to 2018, most of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science and Medical Journals in Brazil only maintained or even decreased their impact factor, ABC Cardiol steadily increased in a significantly amount its impact factor, only followed by a basic research journal. So, in our scientific community in Latin America ABC Cardiol has established itself as the main reference journal for Cardiology and Cardiovascular Science. Table 3 JCR impact factor for 2017 and 2018 for Brazilian Journals (Cardiovascular Field, Medicine and Basic Research). Source JCR 1 Journal Impact Factor 2017 Impact Factor 2018 Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia 1,318 1,679 Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 0,805 0,796 Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research 1,492 1,850 Clinics 1,245 1,127 Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 2,833 2,368 Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira 0,736 0,801 Sao Paulo Medical Journal 1,063 1,088 The rise in impact factor means that our research community is recognizing the articles being accepted and published in ABC Cardiol journal as relevant and impactful science. This accomplishment fulfills ABC Cardiol mission that is to promote new knowledge and publish the latest research, emerging technologies and breakthrough advances in Cardiology and cardiac diseases. ABC Cardiol journal is free and open access journal that can be viewed, downloaded and accessed by mobile app from anywhere in the World. The readers can interact with editorial board members and authors through social media (Facebook, Tweeter, Instagram, etc) and through movie posts in our newly re-designed web-portal. This important step on the ABC Cardiol progression toward a higher scientific rank was only possible by a continuous editorial policy that started several years back with Dr. Luis Felipe Moreira, former Editor-in-Chief, to whom we are deeply grateful. Our international and talented associate editors’ team, dedicated editorial board and reviewers are by far the main reason that led ABC Cardiol to his current position. The strong support from our Brazilian Society of Cardiology board of directors to the ABC Cardiol has been crucial to achieve our goals of increasing our impact and presence in the scientific community. Our dedicated team of editorial assistants that does not measure the efforts to achieve timely and high quality publication is of paramount importance to our ABC Cardiol journal operation. For me as editor-in-chief, running ABC Cardiol and working together with this great team of professionals in our office in São Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro has been a blessing. Thank you so much for this delightful experience. Our editorial policy is focused in the scientific quality of submitted manuscripts and the novelty they bring to the field. We welcome new and revolutionary ideas brought to light by rigorous scientific method in well-written manuscripts. Our main language is English, but we accept and publish all articles bilingually, English and Portuguese. We have editorial comments for all published original articles, which place the new science in context with the specific research field. ABC Cardiol is also the home of all clinical guidelines, statements and expert consensus endorsed by the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. All guidelines are now published in Portuguese and English and within the body of the Journal. With these recent improvements in our editorial policy and continuous support from our scientific community and post-graduation programs in Brazil we hope we can break another impact factor barrier next year. Thank you all very much.

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          Journal
          Arq Bras Cardiol
          Arq. Bras. Cardiol
          abc
          Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
          Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC
          0066-782X
          1678-4170
          July 2019
          July 2019
          : 113
          : 1
          : 1-4
          Affiliations
          [1] Instituto do Coração - Incor, São Paulo, SP - Brazil
          Author notes
          Mailing Address: Carlos E. Rochitte • Av. Dr. Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar 44 - Andar AB - Ressonância & Tomografia - Cerqueira César - 05403-000 - São Paulo, SP - Brazil E-mail: rochitte@ 123456cardiol.br , rochitte@ 123456incor.usp.br
          Author information
          http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4505-3344
          Article
          10.5935/abc.20190135
          6684181
          31411286
          1ddd0c18-e739-4bbd-b3f7-e9f2a6795f8a

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