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BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF RHEUMATOLOGY

Editors: Paulo Louzada-Junior and Max Victor Carioca Freitas

Co-editors: Eloísa Bonfá, Hilton Seda, João Carlos Tavares, Brenol, Mittermayer Barreto Santiago and Ricardo Fuller.

The Brazilian Journal of Rheumatology (BJR), the official news agency of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology (BSR) was founded in 1957 and is published bimonthly. The BJR resulted from the need to create an official BSR agency that could disclose the scientific production of Brazilian rheumatologists. The initial direction had Waldemar Bianchi, then president of BSR, Hilton Seda, Secretary-General, and Ayrthon Ferreira da Costa; and the first issue was published in September 1957. In its first year, the BJR had two editions (September and December), rising to four in the following year. For several years, the journal had Waldemar Bianchi as director and Ayrthon Ferreira da Costa as editor. After a series of commercial setbacks (which led to its suspension in 1969), the BJR, then under the publishing of Edgard Atra, had the first issue of volume 14 published in July 1974, the year in which four editions were published. Settled the commercial issue, in 1977 the journal was already publishing five issues annually and, from volume 18 (1978), have gone to six, its current periodicity. Edgard Atra remained as editor until August 1984, being replaced by João Francisco Marques Neto. In September 1988, Lílian Tereza Lavras Costallat became the new editor, and, in 1992, Hilton Seda was the new editor, being replaced by Emilia Inoue Sato, Marcos Bosi Ferraz and Luís Eduardo Coelho Andrade (editors) and Edgard Atra (senior publisher) in November 1994. In 1997, Luís Eduardo Coelho Andrade was the only editor, until September 1998, year in which Natalino Yoshinari assumed. In November 2000 the magazine has as its publisher Iêda Maria Magalhães Laurindo, and as co-publisher Eloísa Bonfá, Hilton Seda and João Carlos Tavares Brenol until November 2002, when the journal was honored with the inclusion of a new co-publisher, Isídio Calich. This last composition was kept until 2006. Later, Ricardo M Xavier and Francisco Ayrton Castro Rocha took place as editors; and Eloísa Bonfá, Hilton Seda e João Carlos Tavares Brenol as co-editors. From October 2008, BJR has Mittermayer Barreto Santiago and Ricardo Fuller as editors and the co-publishers remains the same. BJR, in its trajectory, has suffered constant changes, always seeking the refinement and revitalization of its presentation and content. The Brazilian Medical Association started the publication of BJR in 1979, consecutively followed by Redprint Editora Ltda, Etcetera Editora, Congress Update Editora Company and Segmento Farma. In January 2009, Elsevier was contracted to be the publisher of BJR, and since then BJR has been published in Portuguese and English. In 2010, as a result of the excelent work of Mittermayer Barreto Santiago and Ricardo Fuller as editors and unconditional support of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology, the BJR was indexed in PubMed/ Medline and remaining bilingual until now. In October 2010, assumed as new editors Paulo Louzada-Junior and Max Victor Carioca de Freitas.


INDEXATION SOURCES:

• PUBMED/MEDLINE
• A Scientific Electronic Library Online - SciELO
• Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde - LILACS
• Scopus
• Index Copernicus


AIMS AND POLICY:

The Brazilian Journal of Rheumatology (BJR) is owned and published by the Sociedade Brasileira de Reumatologia and publishes manuscripts focusing on subjects related to the rheumatology field, after analysis by the Editorial Board and peer-review. The BJR is published bimonthly and is indexed on PUBMED/MEDLINE, Lilacs (Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde), Scopus, index Copernicus and SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) databases. After submitting a manuscript, the author (s) assumes responsibility for the scientific content and declare that the material neither has been published previously nor is being considered for publication elsewhere. The manuscript has to be original and has to be approved by all authors. Accepted manuscripts constitute a property of the BJR. All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior permission.

Submitted manuscripts will be analyzed only if rigorously compliant with the rules specified below.

Articles accepted for publication become BJR´s property and may not be reproduced without written consent.

Its abbreviated title is Rev. Bras. Reumatol., which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes and bibliographical references and strips.

Sponsors:

The RBR receive financial supported of:

• Fundos Remanescentes da Sociedade Brasileira de Reumatologia – SBR

www.reumatologia.com.br