The State of the EJSO 2009

David A Rew, Editor in Chief

I am delighted to be able to report at the end of 2009 and symbolically at the end of the first decade of the 21st century that the EJSO is in excellent shape. Since its origins in the mid-1970s, the journal has progressed from a small regional subspeciality journal with a negligible Impact Factor to an Internet enabled, broadly based multi-disciplinary journal with an IF of around 2.5; a manuscript flow of around 600 per annum; an increase in publication frequency from 6 to 12 per year; a healthy rejection rate and list of manuscripts awaiting publication; and a logged full article download of some 300,000 items annually. In the past year alone, the IF has risen from 2.0 to 2.5, and this trend should continue on the basis of foundations already laid by the Editorial Team.

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