Arch. Endocrinol. Metab. 2015;59(1):3
The challenge of new directions
DOI: 10.1590/2359-3997000000002
I am very happy to become the Editor-in-Chief of our dear journal but, at the same time, I am very concerned with the responsibility of replacing the important people that preceded me since the journal started to be published by Waldemar Berardinelli. Some were professors who greatly influenced me towards becoming an Endocrinologist, such as Thales Martins, Clementino Fraga Filho, Luiz Carlos Lobo, Pedro Collet-Solberg, and João Gabriel Cordeiro. Others were references in their areas: the much-missed Armando de Aguiar Pupo, Antonio Roberto Chacra, Rui M. B. Maciel, Cláudio E. Kater, Edna T. Kimura, and Sérgio A. Dib. With the promise to increase the impact factor and the international recognition of our journal, I decided to request its name to be changed to “Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism” (AE&M), removing the term “Brazilian”. I believe that this measure – which may seem as antipatriotic at first – aims at making Brazil even more visible in the international scientific community. In fact, I expect that, little by little, colleagues in Brazil and abroad give prestige to our journal by submitting high level articles. This will only be possible if AE&M, by raising its impact factor, becomes attractive mainly to colleagues in universities that depend on their publications for their academic careers and qualification of their Disciplines.
I should remind you that “Clinical Endocrinology” is the official journal of the British Society for Endocrinology; the “Journal of Endocrinological Investigation” is the official journal of the Italian Society of Endocrinology; and the “Endocrine Journal”, represents the Japan Endocrine Society. We can see that three of the most important societies of endocrinology have journals that do not show the names of their respective countries. However, the subtitle of the “AE&M” will be the “Official Journal of the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism”.
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