EDITORIAL

The BOR in the Journal Citation Reports: an achievement by all of us!

Sigmar de Mello Rode

Executive Editor

When the new Publishing Commission of the Brazilian Oral Research (BOR) took office, one of our concerns was to create a new, more up-to-date graphic design for the Journal. Our greatest endeavor, however, was to ensure correct indexation and citation of the BOR in the pertinent databases.

When researching the BOR in PUBMED, we found the title Pesquisa Odontológica Brasileira (POB). As of 2004, however, the POB changed its name permanently to Brazilian Oral Research, and the title POB remained on the journal's cover in finer print (only as a statement of its origin), leading relevant indexation databases – and even some authors – to assume the name had not changed and prompting them to continue working with the title POB.

Following the graphic makeover, effective as of Volume 21, we removed the entire POB title from the cover. We then wrote a letter to MEDLINE's Executive Editor, Sheldon Kotzin, who understood our concern and determined that BOR's citation would be changed in 2007. He further committed to gradually correcting the former citation of the Journal previous to 2007. Similar letters are also being forwarded to CNPq, CAPES and SCIELO, so as to correct this oversight definitively.

Authors that submit articles to the BOR can and should aid in this effort by registering their scientific production in the LATTES Platform and in DATACAPES using BOR's proper name and ISSN, so that our journal may also be correctly indexed in these databases.

We now have a new goal: to achieve indexation of the BOR at Thomson Scientific, which is responsible for the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and for the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). This will allow the BOR to be ranked as Qualis B – International in the CAPES journal ranking system.

In order to do so, two conditions need to be satisfied in addition to providing the pertinent documentation. First, the "international diversity geographic representation" of authors and citations must be obtained. Toward this end, a comprehensive effort to publicize BOR is being made to present the journal to the international community, aiming at boosting international participation in the journal. In fact, the effort is already producing results: we are presently receiving contributions from South America and North America.

The second condition requires the participation and strong support of all SBPqO members and authors of scientific articles: papers published in the BOR must be cited in articles published in the 49 scientific journals in the field of dentistry (and others) that are indexed in the JCR. They are presented in the table on the next page.

Furthermore, when submitting new articles for publication in the BOR, we must not forget to cite any earlier articles published in the selfsame BOR.

We must trust in the effective results of this effort to bring benefits to the entire Brazilian scientific community, especially to the dental community, as we will be the first Brazilian journal in the JCR.

The application for inclusion can be submitted only once every two years, and we intend to do so in 2008. We count on the participation of everyone toward achieving this greater goal, and contributing toward builduing a higher level of Brazilian dentistry.

More changes are yet to come.