Editorial

RSBO steps into its third number of 2012 completing five issues published in English. The journal will maintain the politics of supporting the costs of the translation of papers written in Portuguese and the revision of the papers in English, to facilitate its consolidation. Moreover, we are preparing the journal to be indexed in other databases, and probably news should already appear in the beginning of 2013, the year in which RSBO will publish its 10th volume. The current update of the Qualis Capes in which RSBO has its concept increased from B5 to B4 was considered fair, once the journal showed the criteria for this qualification since 2007.

The tendency of RSBO for the last issue of 2012 is towards maintaining the number of papers that the journal normally published, around17 per issue, and a planning is being prepared to increase the number of papers in 2013 and/or to modify RSBO periodicity from four to six times per year. This alteration still depends on studies by the editorial board, but it is the natural sequence of the journal growth, which initiates as published twice a year, changed to three times per year, and for already 3 years is being published four times per year.

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