Editorial

RSBO, in its second issue of 2012, completes four editions published in English. The results of the journal translation to English begin to appear with RSBO obvious internationalization. The journal has maintained and will maintain the policy of supporting the translation costs of both the papers written in Portuguese and the revision of the papers in English, for at least some issues, to facilitate the journal consolidation. Also new in this issue is the recent update of the Qualis Capes grade of RSBO: from B5 to B4. This evidences that the journal is on the right track and shows the results of the hard work of our team, from the editorial board to the people involved in publishing and production of the journal.

The results of RSBO's constant evolution can be seen in the number of papers submitted to the journal, which increased about 20% in 2011 and that continues to grow in 2012, reflecting in the growing quality of the studies published in the journal. Despite of this increase, RSBO tendency towards 2012 is to keep the number of studies around 17 papers per issue, which tends to enhance the degree of requirements of the peer reviewers, especially regarding to literature review and case report articles.

Flares Baratto-Filho, MS, PhD
Fabricio Scaini, MS
Luiz Carlos Machado Miguel, MS, PhD
RSBO Editors