Euroasian Journal of Hepato-Gastroenterology: Moving Forward and Maintaining Fundamentals
Science and scientific publications constitute the fundamentals of human development and social progress. At the end of second world war and with the advent of New World Order, the impacts of science have touched all spheres of our life. Medical science represents a very specific and crucial branch of science that directly serves the humanity. There has been abrupt development and acceptance of concept of medical science in developed and advanced countries. However, the understanding about medical science is still at its infancy in developing and resource-constrained countries. Most of the countries of Euro-Asia region are still developing in nature and many of them are resource-constrained.
Based on these realities, we initiated the publication of this journal with a Euro-Asian signature. As of today, eight years have been passed from the start line and it is difficult to assess if 8 years is a long time or a short time for a journal. The journal is published twice a year and it has crossed the boundary of Euro-Asian region.
Authors of all continents have submitted their papers to publish in this journal. The journal is now indexed by most of the indexing institutions and also by PubMed.
The journal represents an official outlet of Euroasian Gastroenterological Association (EGA). However, there has been a strong enthusiasm about other national, regional, and international organizations to be associated with this journal. The further upgrading of the journal depends on the cooperation of authors and their submission of articles with high impacts to the journal. This is a vicious cycle as articles with high impact factor would increase the credibility of the journal and at the same time better articles would be submitted if the journal is endorsed by ISI. The controlling gears of the cycle remains at the hand of EGA as well as other associated organizations and the editorial board only hope for the better.
Jaypee publisher is doing their best to have better compilation of the journal and several new alterations have been induced at the format and submission process of the journal. The editorial board would be re-vitalized soon. Thus, when authors, publisher and editorial board would act in rhythmic manner, the upgrading of journal is just a matter of time.
At this age of internalization, upgrading of a specific region may not be a valid concept. However, the heterogeneous development of the world indicates the need of preferential action for some region that would ultimately benefit the world and international development.