Editorial of the twentieth edition of Ambiente & Agua-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Science

We now publishing the 20 th edition with 20 articles evaluated and peer reviewed and since the first published issue, all editions were published as scheduled. We continue to practice the complete open access policy and fostering the visibility of articles. We continue to register doi of all articles and publishing the entire issue as a single archive in addition to the individual articles. This editorial shows citation metrics position of Ambiente & Agua based on Google Scholar Metrics in comparison with other journals.


INTRODUCTION
Ambiente & Água -An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Science (Ambi-Agua) continues to publish electronically via Internet using an open access policy without any charge for submission, publication or full access to the articles.It is maintained by the University of Taubaté, which is a public university and edited by the Institute of Environmental Research in Hydrographic Basins (IPABHi), a nonprofit organization.
The journal has an international scope regarding readers, authors, editorial board members, and registered peer review panel (http://www.ambi-agua.net/seer/index.php/ambiagua/article/view/801).The institutional affiliation of authors, submission and acceptance data are stated in all papers.Basically, all publications report on original research, and in order to have an article published, the authors have to state that a similar paper has not been published in another journal.
The journal has been published on time since it was launched, hence, strictly up to date, with editions published on April 30 th , August 31 st , and December 31 st of every year.
Since March, 2010, we have contracted a new domain (http://www.ambi-agua.net)hosted in a very reliable Internet server.A large number of other hosts and indexing agencies list Ambi-Agua (Batista, 2009).This number is continuously growing, especially with our membership with CrossRef™ that establishes agreements with several metadata harvesters.In addition to the previous agencies that have been listing Ambiente & Água in their data bases (http://www.ambi-agua.net/seer/files/indexadores_AA_Janeiro_2011.pdf),several others have also included our journal in their metadata searching engines such as Epistemio, Ltd., The JournalWiki, LLC, Centro de Información Tecnológica de La Serena-Chile, CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information), Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Academic Analytics, Labtiva, Talis Education Limited (TEL), Patent Calls Inc., The British Library, Pubget Inc., CambridgeIP Ltd., Cambia -Queensland University of Technology, Microsoft, Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), Ex Libris Group, Matrixware Information Services, Symplectic Limited, H.W. Wilson, EasyBib, and Ontario Council of University Libraries.Each of these organizations has different policies to disseminate our metadata in their database to their clients.
The number of submissions per year, the number of articles accepted for publication, and the time between submission and publication reveal the continuous improvement of the journal (Table 1).One of the established goals for this year of 2011 was to increase the number of articles published to 20 per issue.This was possible due to the increased quality and number of submissions.This also makes the journal eligible to be considered by SciElo indexation.We achieved that goal in the last two issues.But 20 articles per issue is about the maximum that we can afford considering that until now the journal receives no financial support and practices the complete open access policy, not charging anything to authors or readers.It can be observed that we operate with a very small staff which can be checked at http://www.ambiagua.net/seer/files/Ambi_Agua_V6_N3.pdf.We need to improve our infrastructure to decrease the time between submission and publication and to possibly increase the number of papers per issue.But to receive support from CNPq and recognition from CAPES or SciELO, our published articles have to be cited by articles published in journals indexed by the Journal Citation Reports ® that critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data.
With the increasing interest of the scientific community, indicated by the number of downloaded published articles (Tables 2 and 3) and, more recently, by the number of submissions (Table 1), we believe that this recognition might happen soon.But this depends largely from our scientific community to increase citations to our published articles.
To monitor the access to the different papers, the journal has been monitored since 2007 (Table 2 and Figure 1) using Google Analytics that collects information about visitors and tracks how visitors interact with our website, including where they came from, what they did on our site, allowing this way a good grasp on how the journal is impacting the community.This has been continued as we changed the host in March, 2010 (Table 3 and Figure 2).
It can be observed that even though the great majority of people interested in Ambi-Agua is from Brazil, it has raised a continuous interest from other countries, especially US, Mexico and Portugal.Just for the recent period of monitoring the new domain (March 01, 2010 to November 30, 2011), the journal has been accessed from all five continents, 144 countries and from 1,722 different cities.One important step that we have taken was to store all published articles in the Mendeley™ host.This is another measure to increase the storage security of the journal.

Figure 1 .
Figure 1.Monitoring of the number of weekly visits to the journal hosted at http://www.agro.unitau.br/seerfrom September 16, 2007, with a gap from March 01, 2008 to April 27, 2008, up to August 30, 2010, when this site was blocked for access.

Figure 2 .
Figure 2. Monitoring of the number of weekly visits to the journal hosted at http://www.ambiagua.netfrom March 01, 2010, when monitoring began, up to November 30, 2011.