JJR: our next step

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We are proud of the tremendous progress made by our journal over the last six years. During this period, the Japanese Journal of Radiology (JJR), the official journal of the Japan Society of Radiology, has become an established international journal in the field of radiology. Following the renaming of our journal from Radiation Medicine to JJR, we have directed considerable time and effort into introducing our journal to radiologists and colleagues overseas. Thanks to the continuing support of the editorial board members, expert reviewers, and international radiology societies, there has been a continuous 20–30 % increase per year in submissions to the journal; nearly 600 submissions were received in 2015. Approximately two-thirds of the manuscripts submitted now come from outside Japan, demonstrating that JJR really has become an international journal. The impact factor increased again in 2015, to 0.874 (from 0.838 in 2014 and 0.742 in 2013), and we expect it to exceed 1.0 in the coming year, as the number of downloads appears to be significantly higher this year than in previous years. Our decision to stop publishing case reports from late 2016 on, as previously announced [1], may also help to increase the impact factor of the journal. …