Editorial.

Autorde Farias, Salomao Alencar
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This year has gone by very fast, and it is my second year as Editor-in-Chief of BAR. What a great experience! It is a learning process that has kept me daily in touch with the academic and scientific word in its most pure essence. Having the chance to first hand read the work from researchers from Brazil and abroad is a challenge and a continuous learning duty.

During the last two years, BAR has gone through some changes: it has adopted continuous publication process of articles, and now it takes about 92 days to process an article that is approved to continue the evaluation process, before being published. Also, we started to accept articles related to Public Administration and Accountancy, broadening BAR's scope to almost every area of the Administration field.

The contribution of Action Editors, Associate Editors and Reviewers has shown to be extremely relevant for BAR's continuous search for excellence in the Administration publication of scientific articles. I can tell you that the quality of the reviews has improved and both Associate Editors and Reviewers are tending to timely respond to their tasks. Authors have shown more interest in having BAR as an outlet for their work, considering that the number of submissions has increased, specially this year. This is great! We are getting more competitive and we are literally, raising the bar of BAR.

2016 was a year of exchanging ideas and getting to know editors of top tiers Journals in Brazil. Fruitful conversations were possible in three different occasions during the year, and it is interesting to find out that we tend to share the same challenges (problems and opportunities) as Editors-in-Chief.

It is important to remember that the Administration (Management) Academy in Brazil has achieved a level of maturity that calls for new Journals to be launched, with thematic topics as it happens outside Brazil, specially in the American Academy. The most traditional Journal, that doesn't have focus in a specific area of the Administration will face new competitors and thus, will need to find ways to continue to improve their publications and attract authors with high quality papers. If this really happens, some questions that arise can be like: how many new Journals does our Academy will hold without losing quality? Should the most traditional and old Journals reinvent themselves? It will be interesting to see new changes in Brazilian and in the world, all related to the academic publication...

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