J Ultrasound (2016) 19:159 DOI 10.1007/s40477-016-0206-5

EDITORIAL

Journal of ultrasound indexed in MEDLINE Ferdinando Draghi1

Received: 16 March 2016 / Accepted: 21 March 2016 / Published online: 7 April 2016 Ó Societa` Italiana di Ultrasonologia in Medicina e Biologia (SIUMB) 2016

The National Library of Medicine has just accepted the Journal of Ultrasound (JUS) for listing and indexing in MEDLINE. Articles from JUS will begin appearing in MEDLINE/PubMed/Index Medicus from volume 19 (first issue 2016). It is a great pleasure for me as Editor-in-Chief and for the Editorial Board to announce this good news to all members of SIUMB and to all readers. The journal was founded in 1990 as a tool for continuing medical education of the Italian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (SIUMB), which is a multidisciplinary society. Right from the beginning, the objective was first of all to support theoretical and practical training of ultrasound specialists. With this purpose in mind, the contents of the issues are carefully selected in collaboration with international scientific societies and recognized key opinion leaders. The contents of the journal reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the scientific society as also articles dealing with ultrasound physics, and the characteristics of ultrasound contrast agents are published in addition to studies involving extra medical topics and veterinary ultrasound. The Editorial Board consists of internationally recognized key opinion leaders residing and working in various parts of the world with the first-hand experience in research and scientific publication. Over the last 6 years, the readership has become increasingly international. In 2013, 66 % of the readers were European; in 2014, the percentage of European

readers was reduced to 51 %, while Asia–Pacific region readers increased from 14 to 20 %, and North American readers from 11 to 18 %. In addition, the number of submissions has increased. In 2013, the articles submitted were 32, and in 2014, the journal had 61 manuscripts submitted, an improvement which further evidences the increasing internationalization of the journal. In addition, the full text article’s downloads had a good growth: in 2013, they were 2.367, and in 2014, they reached 6.220, data that prove the improvement of the quality of the contents. These are the results of a meticulous review process, which is aimed toward accepting manuscripts of high scientific standards to provide a valuable contribute to the knowledge of the disciplines. Indexing in MEDLINE is an important step for JUS in becoming an internationally known journal of sonography. Our next big concern is, of course, to obtain an impact factor. On behalf of the Editorial Board, I earnestly solicit the cooperation of all SIUMB members and readers for the further development of JUS.

& Ferdinando Draghi [email protected]

Human and animal studies The study was conducted in accordance with all institutional and national guidelines for the care of humans, and did not include laboratory animals.

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Compliance with ethical standards Conflict of interest

None.

Informed consent All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. All patients provided written informed consent to enrolment in the study and to the inclusion in this article of information that could potentially lead to their identification.

Istituto di Radiologia, IRCCS, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

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