title: [Citing of national articles: the (de)valuation of Brazilian journals].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate whether there is a preference for foreign periodicals over Brazilian one.
  
  
  METHODS
  We evaluated all references of articles published in the years 2011 and 2007 in the journals Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira, Arquivos Brasileiros de Cirurgia Digestiva and the Journal of the Brazilian College of Surgeons, verifying the quantity of papers from Brazilian and foreign publications.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We analyzed a total of 7,343 references arranged in 348 articles in those three journals; of these, 856 (11.65%) were from Brazilian journals. There was no difference between the three magazines, nor between the two periods. One hundred and eleven (31.9%) articles did not cite any Brazilian journal article and 36 (10.34%) cited Brazilian articles more than foreign ones.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is need for the Brazilian researcher to appreciate more the Brazilian journals, increasing citation from Brazil, without a scientific xenophobia.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Estado do Pará, Brazil. renankleberc@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Renan Kleber Costa
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Teixeira
authors.forename: Tiago Santos
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Silveira
authors.forename: Nara Macedo
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Botelho
authors.forename: Andy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Petroianu
mesh_terms: D001634:Bibliographies as Topic; D001938:Brazil; D038622:Internationality; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*