ABCD — ARQUIVOS BRASILEIROS de CIRURGIA DIGESTIVA é periódico com um único volume anual em continuous publication, official organ of the Brazilian College of Digestive Surgery — CBCD.
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Meet the editors who lead ABCD.
Professor of Surgery, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Esophagogastric surgery, digestive oncology and upper GI endoscopy.
Department of Gastroenterology, University of São Paulo (USP). Digestive surgery, surgical oncology and evidence synthesis.
Medical Director, UNIVAG. Perioperative care and surgical nutrition; leader of the ACERTO protocol.
Practical guides on scientific writing and communication for authors.
Interactive charts — hover the columns and bars. Data verified in Scimago/Scopus, Dimensions and Web of Science (Aug 2026).
Scimago / Scopus, 2012–2025
Citations to articles of the previous 3 years — Scimago / Scopus
Hover a country to see its number of ABCD records — Web of Science Core Collection, 1,480 records, Aug 2026.
Detail — the international tail (Brazil: 1,295 records, 87.5%):
🇧🇷 Brazil — 1,295 records (87.5%)
A history told through the journal's own editorials and articles.
Conceived and founded by Professor Henrique Walter Pinotti, its first editor; the inaugural issue is published the same year.
Read the tribute to Prof. Pinotti (ABCD) →
Professor Pinotti founds the Brazilian College of Digestive Surgery; ABCD becomes its official journal in the early 1990s.
Read the editorial “CBCD: 25 years later!” →Professor Bruno Zilberstein leads the journal through its first decade of consolidation.
Twenty years under Professor Osvaldo Malafaia, now Editor Emeritus, who drove international indexing: SciELO (2007), PubMed (2012), PMC (2014).
Read the editorial “The ABCD from 1986 to 2021: victorious trajectory!” →
New editorial board; from 2022 the journal is online-only and English-only, broadening international reach.
ABCD completes 35 years and a new cycle begins →