Seventh edition of “Ambiente e Água” journal

Abstract

The publication of the seventh edition of “Revista Ambiente e Água – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Science (Ambi-Água)” demonstrates the international visibility that the journal is reaching. An unprecedented number of submissions has been received for this issue and resulted in an increased number (50%) of published articles, as compared to the first two volumes that had six articles published. This issue brings nine peer reviewed articles out of which 5 are published in English. Among those two were submitted from abroad (Nigeria and Argentina) in addition to several paper co-authors from the United States. The participation in the authorship of public universities and municipal, state and federal institutions was also significant. There were 18 authors in this issue from those institutions not considering those authors from abroad. There was also a thematic coverage expansion of articles within the interdisciplinary scope of Ambi-Água. An example of this is an article in Engineering concerned with thermal comfort in urban areas; several submissions in environmental chemistry with two published articles (organic and inorganic chemistry); one article in the area of public health and antimicrobial resistance in aquatic ecosystem; other in sensibility to oil spilling charting in coastal islands; chemical contamination in fish due to the improper land use in Amazonia; and two articles in hydrological modeling in watersheds. Powered by the OAI-PMH protocol (Batista, 2007), which greatly enhances the visibility of the journal, in addition to the fact that Ambi-Água appears in several international indexing systems and its free on-line availability with open access policy, the journal is being frequently consulted. In only two months (June 15 to August 15, 2008) there were 4,556 consultations with an average of approximately 500 consultations a week. These consultations came from 616 cities, 79 countries, and five continents in that period.