Created by Oswaldo Cruz in 1909, the journal Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz publishes scientific articles in the area of biomedical sciences and is one of the oldest scientific journals in Latin America. In 2023, the journal recorded an impact factor of 2.5 (check the evolution of the publication's impact factor, according to Journal Citation Reports, in the graph below).
Currently, the journal has a modern and dynamic website, with good interaction with the user by allowing searches in the collection and the creation of a profile to receive reading suggestions, similar to the portals of the most renowned scientific journals in the world.
The modernization was financed by the Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Faperj) and its main objective is to consolidate the journal's international character.
It is known that the journal Memórias has maintained a strong presence and prominence among scientific publications specialized in Parasitology and Tropical Medicine around the world, for more than 100 years.
Indexed in several international databases, including the Journal Citation Reports, Web of Knowledge, SCImago, Scopus, Bioline International, the journal is among the ten international journals with the highest impact factor in Tropical Medicine, occupying the 10th position, and among the 20 in Parasitology, with the 14th place.
In 2022, the journal had 6,3 references published in scientific articles and books. It is the 14th journal with the highest impact factor and the 9th most cited publication in Latin America, in all areas of knowledge.
Memórias magazine offers the possibility of online submission of articles and has the DOI system, an international identifier of scientific articles, which gives more credibility to its content. All material published on its pages can be accessed free of charge through the website and the historical collection of the publication is also available free of charge on the internet, digitized, since the first edition.
All of its articles are available for search in the Scielo and Pubmed databases, allowing access by researchers from all over the world to the many historic discoveries for Brazilian and world science published in the journal since 1909.
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Read what has already been published about the journal Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
- 'Memories' publishes thematic series on Chagas disease - 18 / 04 / 2022
- For the 16th consecutive year, the journal 'Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz' remains the most cited journal in Latin America - 12 / 07 / 2021
- From print to global access - 19 / 03 / 2019
- Relevance in scientific publication - 24 / 10 / 2018
- 'Memories' sets new record in impact factor - 27 / 06 / 2018
- Tradition and modernity in scientific publishing - 25 / 06 / 2018
- 'Memories': 24-hour publication for Ebola articles - 12 / 06 / 2018
- 'Memories' accepts manuscripts published in pre-print - 27 / 12 / 2017
- 'Memories' reaches record impact factor in its trajectory - 20 / 06 / 2017
- An algorithm for scientific publishing? – Article signed by Adeilton Brandão, editor of 'Memories' magazine - 12 / 06 / 2017
- 'Memories of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute' magazine joins the Publication Ethics Committee - 16 / 05 / 2017
- Articles on yellow fever and chikungunya submitted to 'Memories' magazine are published online within 24 hours through the 'Fast Track' system - 03 / 03 / 2017
- Studies related to the Zika virus submitted to the journal 'Memories' are published online within 24 hours through the 'Fast Track' system - 09 / 03 / 2016
- So that everyone takes science - Article signed by editors Hooman Momen and Paulo Guanaes on open access to scientific production at Fiocruzi
- 16 / 09 / 2015
- Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz remains the most cited journal in Latin America - 22 / 06 / 2015
- Revista Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz gains new editorship - 09 / 02 / 2015
- Memories Magazine is now on PubMed Central - 26 / 06 / 2014
- Memories Magazine launches new website - 08 / 03 / 2013
- Memories impact factor rose to 2.147 in 2011 - 29 / 06 / 2012
- Memories starts 2011 with new achievement - 27/01/2011
- Memories of IOC among the best biomedical publications in the world - 18/06/2010
- Archive of Memories of IOC available on the Scielo database - 11 / 03 / 2010
- The challenge of Brazilian scientific journals - 08 / 09 / 2009
- Memories of IOC honors the centenary of Chagas disease - 09 / 07 / 2009
- Memories of IOC has the highest impact factor in Latin America - 19 / 06 / 2009
- Modernization and internationalization mark the centenary of the magazine Memórias do IOC - 16 / 04 / 2009
- Memories of IOC launches free online collection - 16 / 04 / 2009
- Increases impact factor of Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 24 / 06 / 2008
- Memories of IOC adopts international digital identification system - 15 / 05 / 2008
- Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz is the scientific journal with the highest impact index in Latin America - 21 / 06 / 2007
- Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz gains system for online submission of articles - 25 / 04 / 2007
- Memories of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute registers impact factor growth - 06 / 07 / 2006