Journal of Clinical Medicine | 2025 Editorial Board Meeting of the “Immunology & Rheumatology” Section Held on 14 November 2025

The Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM, ISSN: 2077-0383) held its Editorial Board meeting for the Section “Immunology & Rheumatology” on 14 November 2025, hosted by the Section Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Marco Sebastiani. Ten Editorial Board Members were in attendance. We sincerely hope that more Members will be able to join future meetings. We would like to invite you to review the contents of this meeting.

We reviewed and discussed the following topics with the attendees:

The journal’s introduction, journal awards, and publication statistics;
The journal’s marketing activities, including conference booths, webinars, and collaborations with societies;
The most popular publications and most popular Special Issues in the “Immunology & Rheumatology” Section within the last two years.

The following information was covered in the Members’ discussion:

Continuing to ensure a rigorous peer-review process; Members provided constructive suggestions for ongoing collaboration with reviewers and authors;
Inviting high-quality review papers, focusing on comprehensive topic coverage; Members suggested several specific topics for this purpose;
Developing collaborations with conferences and societies to enhance the journal’s visibility and boost manuscript submissions;
Members proposed additional constructive suggestions regarding Special Issues.

Attendee list (ordered alphabetically):

Dr. David W. Powell, University of Louisville School of Medicine, USA;
Dr. Ennio Lubrano, Dipartimento di Medicina e Scienze della Salute “Vincenzo Tiberio”, University of Molise, Italy;
Dr. Erkan Demirkaya, University of Western Ontario, Canada;
Prof. Dr. Ferdinando Nicoletti, University of Catania, Italy;
Dr. Jorge A. Roman-Blas, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, UAM, Spain;
Dr. José Hernández-Rodríguez, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, University of Barcelona, Spain;
Prof. Dr. Marco Sebastiani (Section Editor-in-Chief), Azienda Ospedaliera Guglielmo da Saliceto di Piacenza, University of Parma, Italy;
Dr. Mike Oliver Becker, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland;
Dr. Roberta Gualtierotti, ¹ Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Angelo Bianchi Bonomi Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, Italy; ² Università degli Studi di Milano, and Fondazione Luigi Villa, Italy;
Prof. Dr. Santos Castañeda, Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Fundación de Investigación Biomédica (FIB), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Princesa (IIS-Princesa), Spain.

To access more information about the Section “Immunology & Rheumatology”, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/sections/Immunology_Rheumatology.

In addition, we welcome you join the online meeting “The 4th International Online Conference on Clinical Medicine”, which includes the “Immunology & Rheumatology” Section—applications to submit your abstract for this conference are now open. For more details about this conference, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/events.