Living in an era of rapid scientific progress, the scientific journals have to keep pace with the speed of the evolutions in the academic world. The competition for excellence between biomedical journals requires periodical changes and updates. This is the reason why we felt the need to rebrand our journal.
Clujul Medical is the second oldest Romanian medical journal, first time published in 1920, one year after the establishment of the Medical Faculty in Romanian language in the University of Cluj. During the decades of evolution, our journal constantly reflected the scientific production of the teaching staff of the faculty of medicine, later also of pharmacy and of dental medicine. For the last 10 years the journal has gone online and is now one of the successful open access free journals, obtaining the indexing in important data bases like PubMed Central, PubMed, Scopus, EBSCO etc. We started to accept and to publish an increasing number of papers from international authors, also from other continents.
However, our aim is to improve the visibility and the quality of the journal. Therefore we decided to proceed like other journals in last years: to change the name, to change the editorial format and to rebrand it. It is our pleasure to introduce now to you our old and beloved journal under a new name and with new cover and design. Understandably, we refreshed the editorial board and we wish to thank all our former dedicated contributors, and also the new board members who accepted to embark on this initiative.
We will continue to publish four issues per year, open access and free and we are confident that our readers will be happy with our new version of the journal. But we do not give up the tradition and will use the name “Clujul Medical” as a subtitle and reminder that the new Medicine and Pharmacy Reports is now the name of the journal.
Please enjoy reading our first issue of Medicine and Pharmacy Reports and think to submit your manuscripts for evaluation!