RBCI Articles Cited in a Journal of Hight Impact Factor

A few weeks ago, we received the auspicious news that two articles of Revista Brasileira de Cardiologia Invasiva (RBCI) were included in a meta-analysis by authors from Mayo Clinic, which evaluated the impact of off-hour primary coronary angioplasty, and was published in the British Medical Journal.1 This is, to our knowledge, the first non-Brazilian authors’ pu bli cation in a journal of great impact factor including articles from RBCI. The articles cited are by Cardoso et al.,2 from Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (RS), and by Albuquerque et al.,3 from Biocor Hospital, Belo Horizonte (MG). Some years ago, this fact might have seemed like a distant dream, but today it became reality. Undoubtedly, this is the result of the investment of Sociedade Brasileira de Hemodinâmica e Cardiologia Intervencionista (SBHCI; Brazilian Society of Hemodynamics and Interventional Cardiology) in its strategies on behalf of a scientific journal of higher quality. We hope that the greater international visibility of RBCI will be a factor of incentive for our authors to submit articles that increasingly explore the relevant topics of our specialty, which clearly attract more attention from other researchers, and also from our readers.