title: [Production profile of a scientific journal: Revista Latino-americana de Enfermagem].
abstract: This article presents the production disseminated by Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem from 1993 to September 2001, the destination of the manuscripts submitted for publication and the description of the major problems detected by the editors and reviewers concerning manuscript evaluation. In spite of the problems detected, most of the manuscripts elaborated by nurse researchers were considered to be good quality and to have significantly contributed to nursing development. The problem that has been pointed out aims at warning authors with regard to some aspects that must be observed before submitting manuscripts to a journal for publication.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto/USP.
authors.forename: Maria Helena Palucci
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Marziale
authors.forename: Isabel Amélia Costa
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Mendes
mesh_terms: D007843:Latin America; D009729:Nursing; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*