Biomed Imaging Interv J 2006; 2(2):e37
doi: 10.2349/biij.2.2.e37
© 2006 Biomedical Imaging and
Intervention Journal
EDITORIAL
A successful first year: taking stock and looking ahead
KH Ng, PhD, MIPEM, DABMP,
BJJ Abdullah, MBBS, FRCR
Department of Biomedical Imaging (Radiology), Faculty of
Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The biij will shortly be completing its first year of
publication. This calls for a celebration for very many reasons. There have
been mistakes made, lessons learned, triumphs and achievements... all in these 12
months. With this issue, we decided it was time to pause a little and take
stock of our progress during the past year.
We firmly believe that knowledge should not be the monopoly
of a few select individuals especially when it has the potential to enhance the
quality of life for mankind. We also believe that this can be achieved through
participation in the open access initiative [1-3].
One of the founding principles of the biij is to ensure that
biij offers easy access to research for academics, scientists and anybody else
who seek it [1]. We are fully committed to the open access model of scholarly
communication, which brings benefits to authors, readers, teachers, scholars,
and researchers alike. It serves as a catalyst to the research world by
ensuring that new developments and discoveries reach the farthest shores.
To achieve this we have to acknowledge the support from
researchers, reviewers and authors and readers who believed in our vision for
the journal and helped realise it through their regular, invaluable
contributions.
We also acknowledge our sponsors who have been generous and
enormously supportive. It takes a huge load off our shoulders when we know that
each issue of the biij will see light of day thanks to their commitment.
They say, the first year is always the most difficult to
get through. The journal has been able to efficiently maintain the entire
editorial lifecycle within a reasonable timeframe (data as of 29 June 2006):
average time from submission to first review was 20.7 days, time lag between
submission and acceptance (turn around time) was 109.9 days and a manuscript
was published within a mean period of 35.2 days following acceptance. Each
manuscript is processed for dual formats: a multimedia enabled, display
independent web format, and a more traditional typeset PDF format. Abstracts
are extracted and automatically indexed in supported bibliographic indexing
engines. The number of submissions has reached 82 and our acceptance rate is currently
80.8%.
The readership of biij comes from more than 60 countries, from
Canada to Cyprus, from Singapore to Slovenia, and from United
States to Uruguay; making it a truly international journal.
Another achievement is that we have been indexed by the following
bibliographic agencies: Chemical
Abstract, INSPEC,
Index Copernicus,
Directory of
Open Access Journals and CrossRef.
We aim to get indexed by Medline
in the near future.
With every passing month, the website's popularity has
increased and its virtual readership has grown steadily (Figure 1). Between
July 2005 and June 2006, there has been an average of 2,724.8 page loads, made
by 1,345.6 unique visitors and 248.3 returning visitors each month (data
retrieved from Google Analytics as of 29 June 2006).
Every article is assigned a unique Document Object
Identifier (DOI) and carries the citation information which is a great boon to
contributors to determine how frequently their article has been cited. The
journal also provides a list of its "most-viewed articles" with the
highest having reached 2,172 page loads (as of 29 June 2006).
Digital recordings of lectures and conferences have been a
useful tool in learning [4], and biij has
recorded many such lectures and presentations of conferences
and workshops around the region. These digital video files,
which are available on the biij site (http://www.biij.org/biomedical-imaging-intervention-journal-resources.asp),
have proven to be a valuable educational resource.
We are planning a few special focus issues, including PET/CT
and molecular imaging, image-guided surgery and therapy, radiation dose optimisation
in biomedical imaging and intervention, leadership and management. To ensure a
publication of the highest quality, well known researchers and practitioners
have been invited to contribute articles.
Finally, we would like to especially thank our readers whose
support is what keeps the journal going for each issue. Your readership,
feedback, and encouragement help sustain our work and in return we assure you
that the biij will strive to maintain the highest publication quality.
We can only march forward now.
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Received 13 June 2006; accepted 29 June 2006
Correspondence:
Department of Biomedical Imaging (Radiology), Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tel.: +603-79502069; Fax.: +603-79581973; E-mail: ngkh@um.edu.my (Kwan-Hoong Ng).
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