Brazilian Journals Research Articles

In which journals do family and community physicians in Brazil publish?

Introduction: Authors choose scholarly journals not only to advance their careers but also to interact with their respective scholarly communities. Objective: To describe the journals where family and community physicians in Brazil publish their work. Methods: In late 2018, we compiled a nationwide list of family and community physicians, and downloaded their curricula from the Lattes Platform. We extracted data on their complete journal articles from their curricula, completed these data with queries to CrossRef, VHL/LILACS, and PubMed/MEDLINE, and obtained data on the journals with queries to the United States NLM Catalog. Results: We found 3558 unique articles, published by 1011 journals. The most productive journal was RBMFC (Revista Brasileira de Medicina de Família e Comunidade), which published 347 (9.8%) of these articles. About one in six articles were published in journals on family practice or primary health care. The proportion of articles published in journals in Brazil decreased during the study period from 83.8% to 58.4%. Conclusion: As in other countries, family and community physicians in Brazil usually publish in the national journal dedicated to their scholarly community, while also publishing extensively in journals from other disciplines. The increasing proportion of articles published in journals outside Brazil suggests primary care research in Brazil is increasingly of international relevance.

LATIN AMERICAN JOURNALS AND HEGEMONIC LANGUAGES FOR ACADEMIC PUBLISHING IN SCOPUS AND WEB OF SCIENCE

ABSTRACT This paper presents a descriptive analysis of SCOPUS’ and Web of Science’s journal lists, in order to illustrate and critically assess the current presence of Latin American journals included in these mainstream databases and their working languages for publication. The latest lists of journals released by both databases as of March 2020 were analyzed in terms of journal language and country of publication. Results show Brazil clearly emerges as the regional leader, especially in WoS’ Science Citation Index Expanded and Emerging Sources Citation Index. However, this predominance of Brazilian journals does not entail a corresponding relevance of the Portuguese language. Spanish is the predominant language in mainstream Latin American journals, especially in the Social Sciences and Humanities, while journals identified as multilingual tend to associate either Spanish or Portuguese with English. The combination of Spanish and Portuguese is significantly smaller. This calls for a critical revision of the state of the Latin American scientific-editorial field as a linguistic market, as well as for further questioning the role of English as the lingua franca of academia.

A note from the SBMAC

Trends in Computational and Applied Mathematics is a new journal published by the Brazilian Society for Computational and Applied Mathematics (SBMAC). SBMAC was established in 1978 as a scientific organization aimed at developing and promoting Computational and Applied Mathematics in Brazil. It is a leading environment for researchers, professionals and students working in Applied Mathematics and related fields. Currently, SBMAC has over 300 members and it organizes the largest scientific event in t his field in Latin America, the National Congress of Computational and Applied Mathematics (CNMAC), an annual congress that attracts around 700 attendees. Furthermore, SBMAC organizes regional events and co sponsors many other events in Brazil. In 1999, SBMAC created the journal Tendências em Matemática Aplicada e Computacional (TEMA), which was originally devoted to papers presented at CNMAC and to the dissemination of Applied Mathematics in Portuguese. With the publication of 21 volumes, the jornal has grown and has become a leading Brazilian journal in the field. In the past few years, the great increase in the number of submissions in English, by Brazilian and foreigner researchers alike, shows that TEMA has attracted an international audience and is recognized as an important publication in Computational and Applied Mathematics. The new journal, Trends in Computational and Applied Mathematics, marks the rebirth of TEMA as a truly international journal, yet one that preserves its history and the high profile that it has achieved. Our goals are to publish original research, theoretical developments and case studies on promising themes; to offer an interdisciplinary and reliable international forum; to provide an efficient peer review system, leading to a fast response time to the first decision. For forthcoming issues of TCAM, we invite researchers in Applied Mathematics and related fields to submit papers with innovative and/or relevant contributions to Computational and Applied Mathematics. We hope you enjoy reading the first issue of the new TCAM. We are looking forward to receiving your future contributions, as well as any comments and suggestions you may have. We will try our best to adjust to the expectations of our readership.

SPECIAL ISSUE ON BIOSTATISTICS AND BIOMETRY IN THE ERA OF DATA SCIENCE

This special issue of the Brazilian Journal of Biometrics (BJB) contains 16 papers. The main topic of the special issue is "Biostatistics and Biometry in the Era of Data Science", and it is the result of a collaboration between the BJB and the Brazilian Region of the International Biometric Society (RBras) in the sequence of the cancelled 2020 RBras annual meeting due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Multidimensional quantitative analysis of the Cuban scientific output and its regional context

A multidimensional approach was applied to analyze trends of the Cuban scientific output in the context of the 21 Latin American countries exceeding two million inhabitants. Output performance for each country were compared. The following parameters were analyzed: output and journals indexed at Scopus (SCImago stats, 1996–2018) and the Web of Science Core Collection (1996–2019), journals covered by SciELO, academic journals registered at Latindex, and the number of serials registered by the ISSN International Centre. The comparative elements include: Web of Science vs. Scopus annual output and by cumulative frequency, share of academic journal output by country vs. total output, output in national journals and document typologies. It was shown that either annual or cumulative, ranking in the LAC region has been quite stable despite few changes during 2015–2019. The rise of Brazil’s output either in foreign or Brazilian journals increased its cumulative regional contribution by 11.37% from 1996 to 2018 and equivalently stabilized or decreased the relative regional contribution indexes for most countries either cumulative (positive change only for Mexico) or annual (positive changes for Colombia, Ecuador, Chile and Peru). In spite of its 11th position in population and 10th position in GDP, Cuba ranked among the first eight most productive countries (ranked 7th in total documents), quantitatively outperforming LAC countries with more GDP and population. Its ranking was highly influenced by Cuban journals’ output. Some considerations are provided for a more balanced analysis of scientific output in relation to socio-economic and database indexing aspects.

Brazilian Journal of Mother and Child Health - Year 20

Brazilian Journal of Mother and Child Health - Year 20

Trends of the main bibliometric indicators of Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia (2010–2019)

BackgroundThe Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia (Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia) is the official journal of the Brazilian Society of Dermatology, which has been published since 1925, with free, bilingual access. There are several bibliometric indicators that estimate aspects of a journal’s scientific influence. Its analysis, based especially on the evolutionary trend, allows identifying the journal’s strengths and weaknesses, in addition to guiding editorial policies. ObjectivesTo evaluate the trends of the main bibliometric indicators of Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, in the decade of 2010–2019. MethodsMethodological study that proposed the analysis of bibliometric indicators published by Journal Citation Reports, SCImago, and Scopus, for the journal Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, from 2010 to 2019. The following aspects were evaluated: Impact factor, Immediacy index, SJR (SCImago), in addition to the number of citations, citable items, Cite Score, percentage of external citations, percentage of cited articles, percentage of citable articles, and the article influence score. ResultsThere was an increase in the main bibliometric indicators in the last decade: impact factor (0.337 to 1.121), immediacy index (0.054 to 0.204),Eigenfactor (0.00025 to 0.00394), SJR (0.176 to 0.453). The percentage of external citations (48.4% to 94.1%) and cited articles (24.7% to 51.4%) also increased. The increase in the impact factors of Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia in the period was more significant than that of the dermatology journals (1,667 to 2,118) and the Brazilian journals (1,247 to 1,408), indexed in the Journal Citation Reports. Study limitationsFailure in the classification and registration of the databases. ConclusionsThere has been a consistent increase in the scientific influence of Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia in the last decade.

Evaluation of the growth performance and some blood parameters in broilers with the addition of humic substances in the diet

Article Details: Received: 2020-10-21 | Accepted: 2020-11-27 | Available online: 2021-01-31 https://doi.org/10.15414/afz.2021.24.mi-prap.150-154 The effect of the administration of two humic preparations on a selected production and biochemical parameters were monitored in an experiment with broiler chickens of the Cobb 500 breed. There were not observed statistically significant differences between the control group and the experimental groups in the achieved average live weight and the feed conversion ratio in the 37-day experiment. The statistically significant differences (P˂0.001 and P˂0.05) were between the content of calcium, phosphorus and chlorides in the blood of the control group compared to the experimental groups. As for magnesium in the blood, we did not find significant differences (P≥0.05) between the groups. As far as the parameters of the energy profile are concerned, the content of glucose and cholesterol was statistically significantly higher in the control group in comparison with the experimental groups (P˂0.05). The concentrations of triglycerides were statistically significantly higher in the experimental groups (P≤0.05, resp. 0.01, resp. 0.001) compared to the control group. Keywords: nutrition, humic substances, production, blood, broilers References  ARPAŠOVÁ, H. et al. (2016). Use of humic acid in nutrition of broiler chickens. Slovenský chov , 32-33. In Slovak. AVCI, M. et al. (2007). Effects of humic acid at different levels on growth performance, carcass yields and some biochemical parameters of quails. Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances , 6(1), 1-4. BAHODARI, Z. et al. (2017). The effect of earthworm meal with vermi-humus on growth performance, haematology, immunity, intestinal microbiota, carcass characteristics, and meal quality of broiler chickens. Livestock Science , 202, 74-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2017.05.010 EL-ZAIAT, H. M. et al. (2018). Impact of humic acid as an organic additive on ruminal fermentation constituents, blood parameters and milk production in goats and their kids growth rate. Journal of Animal and Feed Science , 27(2), 105-113. https://doi.org/10.22358/jafs/92074/2018 HAKAN, K. et al. (2012). Effects of boric acid and humate supplementation on performance and egg quality parameters of laying hens. Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science , 14(4), 233-304. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1516-635X2012000400008  JAĎUTTOVÁ, I. et al. (2019). The effect of dietary humic substances on the fattening performance, carcass weight, blood biochemistry parameters and bone mineral profile of broiler chickens. Acta Veterinaria Brno , 88, 307-313. https://doi.org/10.2754/avb201988030307 MAJEWSKA, M. et al. (2017). Influence of humic acid supplemented to sheep diets on rumen enzymatic activity. Medycyna Weterynaryjna , 73(12), 770-773. https://doi.org/ 10.21521/mw.5822 MUDROŇOVÁ, D. et al. (2020) The effect of humic substances on gut microbiota and immune response of broilers. Food and Agricultural Immunology , 31(1), 137-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540105.2019.1707780 NAGARAJU, R. et al. (2014). Effect of dietary supplementation oh humic acids on performance of broilers. Indian Journal of Animal Science , 84(4), 447-452. https://doi.org/ PMC6811714 PISTOVÁ, V. et al. (2017). The effect of the humic substances, garlic ( Allium sativum L.), wormwood ( Artemisia absinthium ) and walnut ( Juglans regia ) on carcass parameters of broiler chickens. Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies , 50(1), 234-237. RZASA, A. et al. (2014). Humic-fatty acid preparation in growing rabbits nutrition. Journal of Polish Agricultural Universities , 17(3), 1-6. TERRY, S. A. et al. (2018). Effect of humic substances on rumen fermentation, nutrient digestibility, methane emissions, and rumen microbiota in beef heifers. Journal of Animal Science , 96(9), 3863-3877. https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/sky265 . TICHA, A. et al. (2009). Humic substances influence on cholesterol absorption. Klinicka biochemie a metabolizmus , 17(1), 37-41. In Czech. VAŠKO, L. et al. (2012). Humic acids in nutrition and effect on metabolism and health production. Slovenský chov , 5, 40-41. In Slovak. WANG, Q., et al. (2008). Effects of supplemental humic substances on growth performance, blood characteristics and meat quality in finishing pigs. Livestock Science , 117(2-3), 270-274. https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.livsci.2007.12.024 YORUK, M. A. et al. (2004). The effects of supplementation of humate and probiotic on egg production and quality parameters during the late laying period in hens. Poultry Science , 83(1), 84-88. https://doi.org/ 10.1093/ps/83.1.84

New Insights for the Brazilian Journal of Dentistry

New Insights for the Brazilian Journal of Dentistry

Plagiarism in articles published in journals indexed in the Scientific Periodicals Electronic Library (SPELL): a comparative analysis between 2013 and 2018

This study analyzes the possible occurrence of plagiarism and self-plagiarism in a sample of articles published in the Scientific Periodicals Electronic Library (SPELL), an open database that indexes business journals in Brazil. The author compared one sample obtained in 2013 (n = 47 articles) and another selected from 2018 (n = 118 articles). In both samples, we verified the guidelines that each of the journals provided to authors regarding plagiarism and the adoption of software to detect textual similarities. In the analysis conducted in 2013, it was found that only one journal (2%) mentioned the word “plagiarism” in its policies, although the majority of the directives required guarantees that no type of violation of authors’ rights was contained in the manuscript. In the analysis conducted in 2013, it was determined that there were literal reproductions in 31 published articles (65.9%), and no relevant similarities with other publications were encountered in 16 articles (34.1%). In the 2018 analysis, 69 of the publications (58%) included observations and guidelines related to plagiarism and self-plagiarism. In the analysis conducted in 2018, it was found that similarities (plagiarism and self-plagiarism) occurred in 52 articles (44%), and no relevant evidence of plagiarism or self-plagiarism was found in 66 (56%) manuscripts. Although a reduction in the index of the occurrence of plagiarism was observed, as was an increase in the instructions on the prevention of plagiarism by authors, practices directed at guiding authors by means of directives concerning the importance of preventing plagiarism in manuscripts submitted for publication can be recommended.

Special Issue of the Brazilian Journal of Physics

Special Issue of the Brazilian Journal of Physics

The intellectual foundation of the elite of Brazilian researchers on knowledge organization domain

Abstract This study aims to analyze the intellectual foundation of the literature on knowledge organization published from 1972 to 2018 by authors enrolled in the Research Productivity Fellowship from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, in Brazil. The corpus of analysis is composed of 166 papers indexed in Base de Dados Referencial de Artigos de Periódicos em Ciência da Informação, which is a database that gathers the scientific literature published in Information Science journals in Brazil. It is an exploratory study that uses citation analysis as the methodological procedure, through author co-citation analysis and author bibliographic coupling. Fujita is identified as the most productive author, with 18 articles. Dahlberg is the most cited author, with 53 citations. The highest frequency of author co-citation is between Hjørland and Dahlberg; Tálamo and Kobashi. They are the seminal authors to the Brazilian scientists studied in this paper. The strongest relationships in the author bibliographic coupling network are between Lara and Bufrem, Lara and Guimarães, and Bufrem and Fujita. They cited 9 authors in common in the papers analyzed in this research. The conclusion is that there is an influence of European literature among the scientists addressed in this study. The results indicate the possibility of developing diachronic studies on the continuing influences of cited authors, especially from seminal authors, to analyze their permanence or transience over time.

Foot and Ankle Medicine: Analysis of a Decade of Research in Renowned Brazilian Orthopedic Journals

Evidence-based medicine is a new paradigm for medical practice in situations that generate uncertainties regarding disease diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic management, requiring professionals to develop expertise in the critical evaluation and validation of scientific publications. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the articles published in Brazil between 2010 and 2019 on foot and ankle medicine. Three researchers independently searched for articles on foot and ankle medicine in three renowned Brazilian orthopedic journals, as follows: Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia, Acta Ortopedica Brasileira, and Revista Abtpe. In total, 296 articles were identified and complied with the inclusion criteria, being thus analyzed. Applying the Oxford hierarchy of evidence classification, we found that, across the three journals, most articles were at levels 4 and 5 of evidence and originated in the state of Sao Paulo. The most discussed topics were trauma, hallux valgus, pathologies of the calcaneus tendon, and ligament injuries. Given that the predominance of articles with a lower level of evidence has also been reported in the literature for international journals, initiatives that encourage an increase in the number, in the popularization, and the improvement of the level of evidence for foot and ankle medicine research in Brazil are warranted.

The Gendered Division of Labor in Brazilian Political Science Journals

This article analyzes the gendered division of labor in Brazilian political science. We seek to answer two questions: what are the predominant topics in political science that are being published in the discipline’s journals? How are women and men’s authorship distributed in these journals? The methodology involved three stages. First, we built a corpus with 2,363 articles that were classified as ‘political science and international relations’ by the Coordination for the Improvement for Higher Education Personnel ( Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – CAPES) and published in the most prominent Brazilian journals between 2005 and 2018. Next, we scraped abstracts and other bibliographic information from publications in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) platform and used a topic modeling technique to identify the most recurrent topics. Finally, we associated the identified topics with the authors’ gender. The data was examined based on two specific types of the gendered division of labor: the ‘horizontal’ and the ‘vertical’. Our results show that women and men as first authors tend to cluster around specific topics (horizontal division), but we did not find a tendency in journals to reject works on the topics in which women are better represented. In other words, differently from what was found by the international literature, the Brazilian journals in our sample do not seem to grant a lower status to these topics (vertical division). It is noteworthy, however, that men are the majority of first authors in all topics, including feminism.

Half a century of studying adaptability and stability in maize and soybean in Brazil

ABSTRACT: The study of adaptability and stability underlies the cultivar recommendation process for all crops. There is a considerable number of statistical methods available for this purpose, but little is known about their actual adoption by the Brazilian scientific community. The objective of this study was to carry out a systematic review of the scientific literature on the adaptability and stability methods used in maize and soybean in Brazil from scientific articles published between 1970 and 2017 in Brazilian journals. Article searches were carried out in journals indexed through the SciELO database. The articles were classified according to the year of publication and the adaptability and stability methods used. We also evaluated the pattern of association between methods. We found 113 articles on adaptability and stability in maize and soybean, in which 21 methods were listed. The most commonly used method was the Eberhart and Russell methodology. The Cruz, Torres, and Vencovsky along with the AMMI methods were also widely used. The number of articles using most methods decreased in the current decade, except for the GGE Biplot, MHPRVG, and Centroid methods. In studies with more than one method, the methods were more likely to be used together with the Eberhart and Russell methodology. Adaptability and stability in maize and soybean have been widely studied over the last several decades in Brazil, although the number of publications on this subject has decreased over this time period.

Sustainability and strategy: A Brazilian integrative review

This paper aimed to understand how the fields of strategy and sustainability have been related in papers published in top Brazilian management journals. An integrative review was conducted in July 2019, consisting of a qualitative approach analysis. It was found that there are nine issues that permeate the relation between sustainability and strategy, such as critical analysis, which is present in Brazilian papers but has not been identified in international reviews on this topic. This study highlights the need for critical analysis in the sustainability-strategy relationship, a little-explored perspective in both literature and practice. As well, the adoption of organizational theories that can be used to analyze the sustainability-strategy relationship. Seeking to contribute to the scientific advancement of this topic, propositions for future research are presented.

Turismo cultural: análise bibliométrica e de redes sociais do campo de turismo no Brasil, 1990‑2018

We present a bibliometric and social network analysis of the Brazilian field of tourism, taken as the articles of 16 Brazilian tourism journals. Utilizing keywords, we describe and evaluate its trajectory (1990‑2018), with focus on the cultural tourism cluster. We study the authorship (authors, institutions and geographic distribution), journals (dispersal of publication), impact and intellectual structure of the cluster. It is clearly delimited, and includes “expected” keywords that orbit around cultural tourism, culture and heritage. Authorship is relatively fragmented; there is an overrepresentation of the Northeast Region of Brazil. In the references, there is a distinct social sciences orientation; there are relatively few authors and texts concerned with cultural tourism as a market segment. Margarita Barretto’s dominance and centrality in the intellectual structure is clear. Concerning the impact, the cluster has an average of actual citations per article just below that verified for the field.

Transparency and Replication in Brazilian Political Science: A First Look

ABSTRACT We provide the first replication study of political science research published in Brazil by attempting to replicate every quantitative article published in five major Brazilian journals between 2012 and 2016. We also tested whether replication rates varied between established fields, more traditional and where the use of quantitative data is more common, and emerging fields. Our results show that transparency and reproduction are still in a development stage in Brazilian Political Science. Of the 650 articles reviewed, we asked for data to 197 quantitative articles. From those, only 28% agreed to share datasets and computed codes. We were able to attempt a replication for only 14%, and successfully reproduce the results of less than 5%. We conclude by suggesting the adoption of transparency and replicability procedures that are standard in other scientific communities.

COVID-19 quarantine in chronic kidney disease patients: A focus on sarcopenia traits.

Dear Editor, Recently, the Brazilian Journal of Nephrology (BJN) published a supplementary issue regarding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) impact on clinical nephrology routine, with a special focus on people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). We congratulate the BJN for the initiative, as it will have a high impact on COVID-19 management for nephrology professionals. Nonetheless, we would like to call attention to a negligence about the COVID-19 quarantine impact on physical function and musculoskeletal health, which has not been [...]

Industrial Engineering and Operations Management – a view from IJCIEOM 2020-2021

This Special Issue of the Brazilian Journal of Operations and Production Management (BJOPM) offers nine papers selected from the 26th International Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IJCIEOM – 2020-2021). The conference theme was “Challenges and Trends for Sustainability in the 21st Century”, looking ahead to bridge theory and practice of economic, social, and environmental sustainability. This editorial paper summarises the selected contributions of collaborative efforts of international researchers to advance knowledge in different research topics of industrial engineering and operations management.