Revistas cardiovasculares ibero-americanas: propostas para uma colaboração necessária

Abstract

The Ibero-American scientific societies have always maintained a close contact and have collaborated very actively in different scientific, academic and social initiatives. This very special relation is grounded in deep common cultural roots, which identify and unite us, and which the best exponents are the languages we share (Spanish and Portuguese). Furthermore, our roots do not only enclose the sociocultural domain, transcending it to academic, universitarian and scientific spheres, in which, once again, we share relatively uniform vision and challenges. The Ibero-American cardiology societies have traditionally maintained important bonds and teaching agreements, as much in the ambit of graduation as in postgraduation; the different national cardiology congresses were always enriched by a consistent participation of IberoAmerican cardiologists from other countries. One needs only to remember the many Hispanic-Lusitanian cardiology congresses that were held, as well as the meetings of the InterAmerican Society of Cardiology and of the Central-American and Caribbean Society of Cardiology.The biomedical magazines constitute one of the most important elements of the scientific societies [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] . The fundamental objective of these magazines is to publish scientific articles of maximum quality, to reach excellence in the editorial process and to promote the widest spread possible of their contents. Therefore, they achieve greater international prestige and recognition, becoming more attractive to different researchers groups as well as to their own readers. The articles published in biomedical magazines are primarily divided in two types: first, original research articles -in which the researchers share and spread their findings, aiming, basically, to push knowledge forward; and, second, revision articles, which objective consists in providing continued quality medical education.The national Ibero-American Cardiovascular Magazines (IBCVM) comprehends all the official cardiovascular magazines of the diverse national cardiology societies of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Although these publications may seem very heterogeneous [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] , the fact is they share fundamental elements (among others, the language), nurture akin aspirations and face similar editorial challenges in an increasingly competitive and globalized scientific world. Until this moment, the collaboration between the different IBCVM had a conjunctural and circumstantial characteristic, without existing, however, a formal collaboration neither institutional agreements to this end 14,15 . However, it is evident that the IBCVM should collaborate intimately to improve as much their visibility, as the spreading of their contents, as to plan editorial strategies of common interest.In order to meet this goal, the Revista Española de Cardiología promoted the First Ibero-American Cardiovascular Magazines Editors Meeting, which was held on the 30 th of March, 2009, in Orlando (Flor...