In which journals do family and community physicians in Brazil publish? The Trajetórias MFC project
Authors: Fontenelle Leonardo Ferreira , de Oliveira Miguel Henrique Moraes , Rossi Stephani Vogt , Brandão Diego José , Sarti Thiago Dias 
Published: June 2020

Introduction

Authors choose scholarly journals not only to advance their careers but also to interact with their respective scholarly communities.

Objective

To describe the journals where family and community physicians in Brazil publish their work.

Methods

In late 2018, we compiled a nationwide list of family and community physicians, and downloaded their curricula vitae (CV) from the Lattes Platform. We extracted data on their complete journal articles from their CV, completed these data with queries to CrossRef, VHL/LILACS, and PubMed/MEDLINE, and obtained data on the journals with queries to the United States NLM Catalog.

Results

We found 3622 unique articles, published by 1014 journals. The most productive journal was RBMFC (Revista Brasileira de Medicina de Família e Comunidade), which published 353 (9.7%) of these articles. About one in six articles were published in journals on family practice or primary health care. The proportion of articles published in journals in Brazil decreased during the study period from 83.3% to 59.0%.

Conclusion

As in other countries, family and community physicians in Brazil usually publish in the national journal dedicated to their scholarly community, while also publishing extensively in journals from other disciplines. The increasing proportion of articles published in journals outside Brazil suggests primary care research in Brazil is increasingly of international relevance.

Biography

Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle: Professor at Universidade Vila Velha. Graduated in medicine from Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo; medical residency in family and community medicine from Universidade de São Paulo Medical School of Ribeirão Preto; master’s degree in community health at Universidade de São Paulo Medical School of Ribeirão Preto; Ph.D. in epidemiology at Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Medical School.

URL (Lattes): http://lattes.cnpq.br/9234772336296638

Competing interests: see below.

Contribution: Conceptualization; Data curation; Investigation; Methodology; Project administration; Software; Supervision; Visualization; Writing – original draft.

Miguel Henrique Moraes de Oliveira: Medical doctor graduated from Universidade Vila Velha.

URL (Lattes): http://lattes.cnpq.br/0608163043063251

Competing interests: None.

Contribution: Data curation; Investigation; Writing – original draft.

Stephani Vogt Rossi: Medical student at Universidade Vila Velha.

URL (Lattes): http://lattes.cnpq.br/7614124748693457

Competing interests: None.

Contribution: Data curation; Writing – review & editing.

Diego José Brandão: Professor at Universidade Vila Velha. Graduated in medicine from Escola Superior de Ciências da Santa Casa de Misericória de Vitória (EMESCAM); medical residency in family and community medicine at Universidade de São Paulo Medical School; Ph.D. in preventive medicine at Universidade de São Paulo Medical School.

URL (Lattes): http://lattes.cnpq.br/5130371131757497

Competing interests: see below.

Contribution: Conceptualization; Methodology; Writing – review & editing.

Thiago Dias Sarti: Professor at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Graduated in medicine from Escola Superior de Ciências da Santa Casa de Misericória de Vitória (EMESCAM); medical residency in family and community medicine at Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro; master’s in collective health at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Center of Health Sciences; Ph.D. in public health at Universidade de São Paulo, School of Publich Health.

URL (Lattes): http://lattes.cnpq.br/7489127535403969

Competing interests: see below.

Contribution: Conceptualization; Methodology; Writing – review & editing.