Message from the Editor-in-Chief 2017

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In the last 2 years of my first term, I and my Associate Editors have shaped and stabilized the inflow of the submitted articles, either original or review. Specifically, the turnaround time is being shortened and the number of citations per article is rising. Online publication of accepted articles allows these articles to be browsed on the internet, especially on Google Scholar. As Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (NMMI) is a subscription journal and the articles have an embargo of 1 year before they can be freely viewed on PubMed, the availability of online published articles is not perfect. I am trying to figure out how to solve this problem, as our publisher Springer is working on a middle way between open access and subscription and as our journal is in the list of ESCI (Emerging Science Citation Index) newly introduced by Clarivate Analytics (previously Thomson Reuters). …