WHO'S WHO OF NURSING EDITORS

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Isabel Cristina Fonseca da Cruz, RN, PhD
Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing (www.uff.br/objnursing)

Editor and Journal Manager, Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing (www.uff.br/objnursing), Dec 2002

Prior Editors Position: Peer-review, Revista da Escola de Enfermagem UERJ, 1993-2001

Years as editor: Since 2002

Years in INANE: Since 2004

Other Position: Full Professor, Fluminense Federal University, 1994 until now

Accomplishment: I created the 1st online nursing journal in Brazil and soon it was indexed in the main databases.

Best: Help authors to improve their research manuscripts (format, ethical issues and results discussion) Help authors to publish their production and to improve their professional network Share the Brazilian nursing knowledge around the world!

Worst: 1-The authors that "abandoned" their manuscript...
2- The authors that consider the critics as personal offenses
3- The peer-review that accept the manuscript without read it.
4- The peer-review that accept to review and"forget" the review
5- The author that remember that the manuscript has a co-author, when the manuscript was already published!

Amusing: So many, but my English is too limited to tell one.

3 words: Warrior, inteligent, and hard

Strangest Request: Certainly it happened, but I do not remember

If not editor?: Be a writer!!!!!!!!

Relax?: Yoga, books, music, singing, walking, drinking a cup of tea, etc.