Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical is the journal of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine, founded in 1967 and edited at the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro in Uberaba, Minas Gerais. It publishes original research, reviews and short reports on tropical medicine, neglected tropical diseases, infectious diseases and parasitology, and it appears in English with no charge to authors or readers. The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4, against a five-year figure of 2.0, and Clarivate lists the title in the second quartile of both parasitology and tropical medicine.《巴西热带医学会杂志》是巴西热带医学会的会刊，1967 年创刊，编辑部设在米纳斯吉拉斯州乌贝拉巴的 Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro，英文刊名为 Journal of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine。刊物以英文出版，发表热带医学、被忽视热带病、传染病与寄生虫学方向的原创研究、综述和短篇报告，作者与读者都不承担费用。2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，五年影响因子为 2.0，Clarivate 把它同时列入寄生虫学与热带医学两个类别的第二四分位。

Scope

• The stated mission is to publish scientific papers on infectious and parasitic diseases, preventive medicine, public health and related subjects, and the scope statement adds neglected tropical diseases to that list.刊物声明的宗旨是发表传染病与寄生虫病、预防医学、公共卫生及其相关领域的科学论文，范围表述另把被忽视热带病列入其中。

• Eleven kinds of manuscript appear on the roster: review articles, mini-reviews, original articles, editorials, brief communications, case reports, technical reports, images in infectious and parasitic diseases, letters to the editor, supplements and obituaries.稿件类型共十一种，综述、小型综述与原创论文居前，社论和简报随后，病例报告与技术报告单列。图像类稿件、读者来信、增刊和讣告同样在列。

• Original articles are capped at 3,500 words, run a structured abstract of up to 250 words under the headings background, methods, results and conclusions, and may carry five tables and figures in total.原创论文正文上限 3500 词，摘要与标题不计入其中，参考文献和图表另计。文章须附不超过 250 词的结构式摘要，按背景与方法、结果与结论分四节，图表合计不超过 5 个。

• Reviews are limited to 3,500 words with up to five illustrations, and mini-reviews to 3,000 words with three, both carrying an unstructured abstract of no more than 250 words.综述同样以 3500 词为限，可配 5 个图表，小型综述缩到 3000 词与 3 个图表，两类都用不超过 250 词的非结构式摘要。

• Editorials are usually commissioned, stop at 1,500 words, need no abstract and list ten references at most, while letters to the editor stay within 1,200 words with one illustration and twelve references.社论多为约稿，篇幅止于 1500 词，不设摘要，参考文献不超过 10 条。读者来信控制在 1200 词以内，可配 1 个图表，参考文献上限 12 条。

• Brief communications hold to 2,000 words, use a structured abstract of 100 words or less, carry no more than three illustrations and fifteen references, and run without subheadings.简报以 2000 词为限，结构式摘要不超过 100 词，图表最多 3 个，参考文献不超过 15 条，正文不设小标题。

• Case reports stop at 1,500 words with an abstract of up to 100 words, three illustrations and twelve references, a ceiling that suits a single patient or a small series.病例报告进一步压缩到 1500 词，摘要不超过 100 词，图表最多 3 个，参考文献上限 12 条。

• Images in infectious and parasitic diseases allow 250 words of text, three figures, six references and no more than five authors, which keeps the format to one finding per paper.感染与寄生虫病图像栏目的正文仅 250 词，配 3 幅图，参考文献 6 条，作者不超过 5 人，一篇只讲一个发现。

• Diagnostic performance draws steady attention, with systematic reviews comparing the Kato-Katz smear against spontaneous sedimentation for schistosomiasis and reports on targeted sequencing used to keep SARS-CoV-2 surveillance running through supply shortages.诊断效能是常设方向，刊物登过比较 Kato-Katz 涂片与自然沉淀法诊断血吸虫病的系统综述，也登过用靶向测序在试剂短缺时维持 SARS-CoV-2 监测的报告。

• Vector biology and entomological surveillance run through the archive, from phlebotomine sand fly inventories in Minas Gerais to Sabethes mosquitoes collected from bamboo internodes in São Paulo state.媒介生物学与昆虫学监测贯穿存稿，从米纳斯吉拉斯州的白蛉区系调查，到圣保罗州竹节内采集的 Sabethes 蚊类，都有对应论文。

• Epidemiological work ranges from spatial and temporal analysis of dengue incidence in Manaus to vaccination coverage surveys among children born in Ceará, and it often leans on routine notification data.流行病学稿件从马瑙斯登革热发病的时空分析，延伸到塞阿拉州儿童疫苗接种率调查，常以常规报告数据为依托。

• Clinical management is covered too, including the timing of antivenom after Bothrops and Crotalus envenomation, pharmacovigilance during leishmaniasis treatment, and scoring rules that flag which snakebite patients need intensive care.临床处置同样在范围内，涵盖 Bothrops 与 Crotalus 蛇伤后抗蛇毒血清的给药时机、利什曼病治疗中的药物警戒，以及判断蛇伤患者是否需要重症监护的评分工具。

• Preventive medicine and public health sit alongside the clinical material, which is why outbreak investigations, the organisation of health services and the cost of vaccine-preventable hospitalisation all find a place.预防医学与公共卫生和临床内容并列，疫情调查、卫生服务组织，以及疫苗可预防疾病住院费用的测算，都能在刊物里找到位置。

• A fast-track route exists for diseases the editorial board judges urgent, chosen each year by epidemic occurrence in Brazil and abroad, with review inside three weeks and publication four to six weeks after acceptance.编委会每年按疾病在巴西与全球的流行情况圈定优先病种，这类稿件走快速通道，三周内完成评审，录用后四到六周上线。

History

• The first issue appeared in 1967 under the Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, the society that still owns the title and funds it together with a federal research council.第 1 期于 1967 年问世，主办方是巴西热带医学会，这家学会至今拥有刊名，并与国家科学技术发展委员会一道提供资助。

• Early volumes carried a Rio de Janeiro imprint, later ones Uberaba in Minas Gerais, and since 1987 the journal has been edited at the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro.早期各卷的出版地记为里约热内卢，后来转到米纳斯吉拉斯州的乌贝拉巴，1987 年起由 Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro 承担编辑工作。

• Frequency has shifted several times: bimonthly at the start, quarterly from 1983, bimonthly again from 1996 to 2018 in volumes of six issues, and continuous publication on SciELO from 2019.刊期几经调整，最初为双月刊，1983 年起改为季刊，1996 年至 2018 年回到双月刊、每卷 6 期，2019 年起在 SciELO 转为连续出版。

• SciELO has held the title since 1997, and the whole back file from 1967 to 1996 is posted as open PDFs, so the earliest volumes remain readable without a subscription.刊物自 1997 年进入 SciELO 馆藏，1967 年至 1996 年的旧刊全部以 PDF 形式开放，最早几卷至今无需订阅即可阅读。

• Volume numbering tracks the calendar closely: volume 48 corresponds to 2015 and volume 59 to 2026, the year whose volume is still being filled.卷号与年份对得很紧，第 48 卷对应 2015 年，第 59 卷对应 2026 年，当年这一卷仍在陆续补齐。

• Manuscripts now appear in English only and reach the office through ScholarOne Manuscript Central, after a compliance check by the submission management team.稿件一律以英文发表，经投稿管理处核对体例后进入 ScholarOne Manuscript Central 系统。

• MEDLINE has indexed the journal since volume 19, issue 1, in 1986, and PubMed Central holds the full text.MEDLINE 从 1986 年第 19 卷第 1 期起收录该刊，全文另存于 PubMed Central。

• Layout stayed at UFTM from 1987 to 2018 and has been handled since 2019 by a small MEI company, while the secretariat and correspondence address remain in Uberaba.排版工作 1987 年至 2018 年由 UFTM 承担，2019 年起交给一家 MEI 公司，秘书处与通信地址仍在乌贝拉巴。

• Articles come out under CC BY 4.0 and authors retain the copyright, so reuse is allowed as long as the original source is credited.文章按 CC BY 4.0 发布，版权留在作者手中，只要标注原始出处即可再使用。

• Neither submission nor publication carries a charge, a condition written into the society's statute, and the same rule keeps every article free for readers.投稿与发表都不收费，这一条写进了学会章程，读者端也因此保持免费。

• The journal adopted the Committee on Publication Ethics guidelines in September 2014, belongs to the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors, and follows SciELO's digital preservation programme.刊物在 2014 年 9 月采纳出版伦理委员会（COPE）的准则，同时是巴西科学编辑协会的附属成员，数字保存遵循 SciELO 的项目标准。

• Every accepted manuscript passes through Crossref Similarity Check, high overlap is grounds for immediate rejection, and misconduct found after publication leads to retraction under COPE rules.所有录用稿都要过 Crossref Similarity Check，重合度过高会被直接退稿，发表后发现不端则按 COPE 规则撤稿。

• Preprints deposited in SciELO Preprints or bioRxiv are welcome, and the four main article types must carry a data availability statement before they can appear.存放在 SciELO Preprints 或 bioRxiv 的预印本可以投稿，四类主要稿件还须给出数据可用性声明才能发表。

• A 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4 compares with 2.0 over five years, the Journal Citation Indicator is 0.53, the percentile is 60.6, and citations to the journal total 3,406.该刊 2025 年的期刊影响因子为 2.4，五年影响因子 2.0，期刊引文指标 0.53，百分位 60.6，总被引 3406 次。

• Clarivate ranks the title 19th of 47 in parasitology and 13th of 27 in tropical medicine, both second quartile, with 50 articles a year, a cited half-life of 8.3 years and gold open access at 97.5 percent.Clarivate 把该刊排在寄生虫学 47 种期刊中的第 19 位、热带医学 27 种期刊中的第 13 位，两个类别都在第二四分位。年发文 50 篇，被引半衰期 8.3 年，金色开放获取比例 97.5%。

Editors

• Dalmo Correia Filho holds the editor-in-chief post, working from the Federal University of Sergipe in São Cristóvão and from Universidade Tiradentes in Aracaju.主编为（Dalmo Correia Filho），任职于圣克里斯托旺的 Universidade Federal de Sergipe，在阿拉卡茹的 Universidade Tiradentes 也有教职。

• Carlos Henrique Nery Costa is deputy editor, based at the Federal University of Piauí in Teresina.副主编为（Carlos Henrique Nery Costa），任职于特雷西纳的 Universidade Federal do Piauí。

• Júlio Henrique Rosa Croda is managing editor, dividing time between the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul and Fundação Oswaldo Cruz in Campo Grande.执行编辑为（Júlio Henrique Rosa Croda），在大坎普的 Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul 与 Fundação Oswaldo Cruz 两边任职。

• Aluízio Prata holds the emeritus editor title and Jose Rodrigues Coura the founding editor title, both of them recorded in memoriam on the current masthead.名誉编辑为（Aluízio Prata），创刊编辑为（Jose Rodrigues Coura），两人在现行名单上均注明（in memoriam）。

• Eleven associate editors handle subject areas, among them Carlos Eduardo Tosta in Brasília, Edgar Marcelino Carvalho in Salvador and Milena Botelho Pereira Soares at the Gonçalo Moniz institute in Rio de Janeiro.副编辑共 11 人，分管各学科方向，包括巴西利亚的（Carlos Eduardo Tosta）、萨尔瓦多的（Edgar Marcelino Carvalho），以及里约热内卢 Instituto Gonçalo Moniz 的（Milena Botelho Pereira Soares）。

• Ten researchers sit on the editorial board, drawn from federal universities and from Fiocruz centres in Belo Horizonte, Salvador and Recife.编委会有 10 位成员，来自多所联邦大学，也来自贝洛奥里藏特、萨尔瓦多与累西腓的 Fiocruz 研究机构。

• Eight advisors in quantitative methods form a separate tier, among them Davi Casale Aragon and Edson Zangiacomi Martinez of the University of São Paulo and Guilherme Loureiro Werneck of the State University of Rio de Janeiro.量化方法顾问单列一档，共 8 人，包括 Universidade de São Paulo 的（Davi Casale Aragon）与（Edson Zangiacomi Martinez），以及 Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 的（Guilherme Loureiro Werneck）。

• Thirty-eight members sit on the international editorial advisory board, reaching Brazil, France, the United States, Peru, Iran, Mexico, Britain, Colombia, Italy, India, Uruguay, Portugal, Switzerland and Taiwan.国际编辑顾问委员会有 38 人，覆盖巴西、法国、美国与秘鲁等地。名单里还有伊朗、墨西哥、英国、哥伦比亚、意大利、印度、乌拉圭、葡萄牙、瑞士与中国台湾的代表。

• Twenty-six section editors look after subject areas, and several of them, among them Afrânio Lineu Kritski, Antônio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro and Ana Lúcia Teles Rabello, also appear on the international advisory board.栏目编辑 26 人，按学科分工，其中（Afrânio Lineu Kritski）、（Antônio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro）与（Ana Lúcia Teles Rabello）同时列在国际顾问名单上。

• Cristiano Augusto Silva manages manuscripts and editorial production from Uberaba, handling the graphic project, the XML development and the correspondence that reaches the secretariat.（Cristiano Augusto Silva）在乌贝拉巴负责稿件管理与编辑生产，图形设计、XML 加工以及与秘书处的往来也在其职责之内。

• Review is double blind, each manuscript going to at least three technical and scientific merit reviewers plus a statistical reviewer before any decision is taken.评审采用双盲，每篇稿件至少送 3 位学术审稿人与 1 位统计审稿人，之后才进入编辑决定。

• Meta-analyses and systematic reviews receive a reviewer for the specific area, conflicting reports go to a fourth referee, and the office puts the usual interval from submission to acceptance at about ninety days.荟萃分析与系统综述另配一位领域审稿人，意见冲突时送第 4 位审稿人，编辑部给出的投稿到录用周期约为 90 天。

• The accepted version names the editor or editors who handled it, all parties declare competing interests at submission, and artificial intelligence cannot be credited as an author.录用稿会署上负责该稿的编辑姓名，各方在投稿时申报利益冲突，人工智能不得列为作者。