The Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM, ISSN: 2077-0383) has been holding Editorial Board meetings since 2023. The Editorial Board meeting for the Section “Reproductive Medicine & Andrology” was held on 18 March 2024. We appreciate the Section Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Giovanni M. Colpi, for hosting this meeting. Three Editorial Board Members were in attendance. We are extremely grateful for the strong support from our Editorial Board Members, and we sincerely hope that more Editorial Board Members will be able to participate in future meetings. We would like to invite everyone to review the content of this meeting.
The meeting started with a presentation about the development of the journal, with a particular focus on the Section “Reproductive Medicine & Andrology”. The following topics were discussed:
- The journal’s history, open access policy, and author benefits;
- Journal publication statistics and analysis of author demographics (2018–2023);
- Journal awards, journal marketing activities, and journal social media promotion;
- Section EBM overview, decision-making statistics, and Section development statistics.
The following topics were covered in the general discussion at this Editorial Board meeting:
Members made recommendations to optimize the Section, including the subdivision of subject areas into subfields. Also, the number of members should be expanded to ensure that each subfield receives adequate professional support. In addition, popular research topics were recommended. It is necessary to analyze the relationship between the changes in the journal data and the stability of the impact factor and to pay attention to the positive effect of paper quality on the impact factor. Promotion strategies for the journal should be actively explored, not only promoting the journal at various conferences to enhance visibility in the professional field, but also focusing on optimizing the visual presentation of the journal’s webpage to be more attractive to readers and authors at the visual level. Finally, it was recommended to promote the sustainable development and influence of the journal in all aspects.
We sincerely thank the attending Editorial Board Members for their active participation. Thanks to your participation, we were able to exchange ideas face-to-face and receive timely feedback. We hope that more members will join us in the future.
Attendee list (in no particular order):
- Prof. Dr. Giovanni M. Colpi (Section Editor-in-Chief), Andrology and IVF Center, Next Fertility Procrea, Lugano, Switzerland;
- Prof. Dr. Jens Fedder, Centre of Andrology & Fertility Clinic, Odense University Hospital, 5000 Odense, Denmark;
- Prof. Dr. Germar-Michael Pinggera, Department of Urology, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria;
- Prof. Dr. Tom Kelsey, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9SX, UK.
The latest official CiteScore (2023 Scopus data) for the Journal of Clinical Medicine is 5.7, ranking 80/636 (Q1) in the “General Medicine” category. The current impact factor of JCM is 3.0 (2023), ranking 59/329 (Q1) in the “Medicine, General & Internal” category.
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To access more information about the Section, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/sections/Reproductive_Medicine_Andrology.
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