We are pleased to announce that International Brazilian Journal of Urology became the official communication organ of the American Confederation of Urology. The editorial board and the Brazilian Urology Society are very happy because the beginning of this partnership what will contribute to rein force the impact of the International Brazilian Journal of Urology on the American continente…

The year of 2020, my first year as Editor-in-Chief of International Brazilian Journal of Urology, was very difficult due to the COVID-19 outbreak, but the quarantine period led to an increase in the number of submissions for our journal and we had a significant increase in our impact factor in June 2020. During this period, we ended up with the retention of articles, increased the rigor of selection and decreased the average rating of articles from 47 days to 22 days…

In June 2020 the impact factor of International Brazilian Journal of Urology rises to 1.342. This is the second biggest impact in its history. The journal impact factor is a metric that reflects the yearly average number of citations that articles published in the last two years in a given journal received. The impact factor is very important to the journal importance evaluation…

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