COMMENT: The year of 2020, my first year as Editor-in-Chief of International Brazilian Journal of Urology, was very difficult due to the COVID-19 outbreak, but the quarantine period led to an increase in the number of submissions for our journal and we had a significant increase in our impact factor in June 2020. During this period, we ended up with the retention of articles, increased the rigor of selection and decreased the average rating of articles from 47 days to 22 days. In 2021 we will continue to work hard to increase the impact of our Journal. The January-February number of Int Braz J Urol, the seventh under my supervision, presents original contributions with a lot of interesting papers in different fields: Prostate Cancer, Male Infertility, Female Incontinence, Renal Cell Carcinoma, Urinary Stones, Testicular migration, Laparoscopy, BPH, Partial Nephrectomy, Nocturnal Enuresis and Bladder Cancer. The papers came from many different countries such as Brazil, USA, Turkey, China, Republic of Korea, Chile, UK, India, Spain and Iran, and as usual the editor's comment highlights some of them. In the present issue we present three important papers about Male Infertility. Dr. Bin and colleagues from China performed in page 8 (1) a nice systematic review about the association between body mass index and varicocele and concluded that body mass index is negatively associated with the presence of varicocele. Dr. Cicek and colleagues from Turkey present in page 112 (2) an important study about the association between seminal oxidation reduction potential (ORP) and conventional sperm parameters and shows that the presence of oligozoospermia, reduced progressive motilty or low total motility sperm count in sperm analysis should raise the suspicion of oxidative stress and warrants seminal reactive oxygen species testing and Dr. Groner et al. in page 185 (3) performed on Expert Opinon section an interesting mini-review about the effects of Covid-19 on male reproductive system and suggested that the involvement of the male reproductive system which could be a new route of the disease transmission. The virus has already been found in the semen of infected patients, but it remains to be assessed what impacts it has on male reproductive health. The editor in chief would like to highlight the following works too: Dr. Ouyang and collegues from China presented in page 23 (4) a nice systematic review about medical expulsive therapy and ESWL and shows that Adjunctive medical expulsive therapy with ta- msulosin is effective in patients with specific stone size or location that received repeated ESWL. However, no well-designed randomized controlled trial that used computed tomography for the detection and assessment of residual stone fragments was found. © 2020. All Rights Reserved.
