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.