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BJCVS 30 YEARS

BJCVS: a Success Story

Rubens Tofano de BarrosI

DOI: 10.5935/1678-9741.20160012

The Brazilian Cardiac Surgery, since its inception, used as a means of communication the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (BSC) journal. This entity housed surgeons, as a department, since 1969, and its journal served to the publications of surgical specialty topics could have space in the then young Brazilian heart surgery.

These advances have stimulated our pioneers to structure a specialty society, which was born as BSC department in 1969 and assumed its own identity as the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (BSCVS) in 1984.

The new society, then newborn included in its statutes the obligation to publish a journal with topics within the specialty, which occurred shortly thereafter, when in August 1986 the first issue was delivered to members of the BSCVS.

The first editor, Prof. Adib D. Jatene, structured and led the editions since its inception until 1996. He was succeeded by his son Fabio B. Jatene from 1996 to 2002, who during this period worked with a lot of effort to professionalize the journal and increase the frequency of the Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (BJCVS). Since 2002, we have as editor our colleague Domingo M. Braile, who settled the work of editors who preceded him and initiated a new phase, with the internationalization of our journal and its inclusion in the main indexing database of the scientific community.

From this moment, the Brazilian cardiac surgery experienced a new phase that allowed its members to publish their experiences and present their ideas to colleagues from other countries, especially from the bilingual editions.

New horizons were opened and we were able to access online our journal, submit articles or review them directly on the journal's website and still count on a professional team, committed and specialized to clarify and clear up doubts and difficulties.

Our journal gained momentum, grew and assumed an impact factor never imagined even among those more optimistic. Our journal has shown pioneering spirit and leadership in Latin America and even in some European countries.

In this adulthood that we live today, the help of some partners in the public and private areas has been fundamental, but difficulties are always hanging around, not allowing one blue skies that our Editor wants.

At the opportunity to turn 30, we face times of uncertainty and insecurity in the specialty and in the country, which makes it more difficult to maintain the scientific level and quality of the material presented in the BJCVS.

However, at this time our mind should turn to the words of our late Prof. Zerbini when he said: "Nothing resists to work". And it is in this line of incessant, continuous work and most successful every day that we must keep us and always persevere.

Congratulations Editors, Editorial Board Members and Executive Board of the BJCVS for their tenacity, selflessness and dedication in maintaining this journal that is so important as a society and especially giving us the opportunity to show the work capacity of the Brazilian heart surgery.

The Sociedade de Cirurgia Cardiovascular do Estado de São Paulo / Sao Paulo State Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (SCICVESP), on behalf of Surgeons of São Paulo, is honored to participate in this very significant moment in the history of our BSCVS through its official voice, the BJCVS.

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