Why should I publish? What is the real importance of publishing a scientific article? What we want when we produce a scientific paper? A scientific publication can bring a lot to those who publish, but you cannot lose sight of what it means. First, we must clearly understand that, although the feeling of seeing the published article is rewarding, that publication is only the final step of a long way […].

The critical perception of the ophthalmologic scope for national scientific journals raises constant search for improvement and adjustment to the editorial needs. The publishing process currently proposed by Sociedade Brasileira de Oftalmologia (SBO) aims at aspects to facilitate the submission of articles by the authors, help revisers, and mainly satisfy the desires of the readers, increasingly demanding. In this editorial we share the analysis of a series of modifications and their results for the last two years of the current […]

Decision-making in health is a daily challenge in the life of the ophthalmologist. Patients, operators and public and private managers are increasingly requiringdemanding conducts based on the best scientific evidence available, seeking the assurance of safe and effective procedures. Such responses arise continuously in the literature, and keeping up to date in all areas of ophthalmic knowledge is an arduous task, which requires a time not always available to doctors, whose agendasare increasingly filled with too many activities […].