Hepatitis Monthly: It is Time For a New Strategy Toward Publishing More and Better

Living in a region with a high prevalence of liver diseases especially Hepatitis B and C Virus infections is not sufficient to compensate the gap of knowledge in the field of hepatology. Despite the fact that the knowledge in the field of hepatology is in logarithmic increasing, we are still facing many challenges and gaps in hepatology. There are still many subjects that should be clarified by researchers and scientists but we should not forget knowledge of generation is quite different from publication and knowledge of translation. One of the previous challenges was absence of a peer reviewed high quality journal in general hepatology and hepatitis from developing countries particularly. By establishment of Hepatitis monthly as a leading journal in the field of hepatology in 2004, this tool became available to scientists and a tribune for presentation of research activities which mostly aimed on the real problems of daily practice. The journal aimed to make a link among researchers and clinicians to solve health problems and improve patient’s life quality. After nine years Hepatitis Monthly now is an international journal with a reasonable impact factor, indexed in major internationally recognized databases including ISI web of sciences and PubMed. The presence of a kind of transparent online submission system played an important role in journal progression. Progression was continuous in the journal’s quality during last five years and the number of submissions has increased dramatically, for instance it has been doubled since last year. Simultaneously and regards to using high level technologies for absorbing researcher’s attention toward latest publications and sharing our knowledge with them, we could establish a favorable framework to publish international original works from even outside of the region. After all, the journal has now the highest ranking position among all journals in the field of hepatology in Asia, Middle East and Africa based on ISI JCR xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx