2023 Journal of Clinical Medicine Editorial Board Meeting of Section “Endocrinology & Metabolism” Held on 5 and 18 September 2023

It is our great pleasure to share the news that the 2023 Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM) Editorial Board Meeting of Section “Endocrinology & Metabolism” was held on 5 and 18 September 2023, conducted by the Section Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Didac Mauricio.

The meeting started with a presentation about the journal and Section “Endocrinology & Metabolism” development with the following information presented:

1. Journal history, publication statistics, distribution of scholars (2018–2023), open access benefits, journal awards, conference sponsorship, promotion on social media;
2. Section aims and scope, Editorial Board Member distribution and decision-making statistics, Section statistics, highly cited papers.

The meeting mainly discussed keyword expansion and revision of the Section website, as well as other topics such as Academic Editor decisions, Section title, Section competitiveness, manuscript processing flow, Special Issue series, and feature paper invitations. Based on the discussion, some keywords may be added to the Section website, such as therapy of obesity, diabetes, metabolic bone diseases/disorders, prevention of endocrine diseases, pediatric endocrinology, etc. We will keep an eye out for more proposals and maintain regular communication with the Editorial Board Members to further the Section's growth.

This Section Editorial Board online meeting aims to increase support for the Section's and the journal's next development. We would like to thank every Editorial Board Member and the academics for their support again. We look forward to receiving more support and suggestions and making common progress.

Attendee list (in no particular order):

Part I (5 September 2023):

• Prof. Dr. Didac Mauricio, Hospital de la Sant Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain; University of Vic & Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain; Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain;
• Prof. Dr. Luigi Uccioli, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy;
• Prof. Dr. Brian Tomlinson, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;
• Dr. Sheyu Li, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

Part II (18 September 2023):

• Prof. Dr. Didac Mauricio, Hospital de la Sant Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain; University of Vic & Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain; Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain;
• Dr. John Griffith Jones, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;
• Prof. Dr. Gyanendra Tripathi, University of Derby, Derby, UK;
• Prof. Dr. Alejandro Gugliucci, Touro University California, Vallejo, CA, USA;
• Prof. Dr. Neveen Agnes Therese Hamdy, Leiden University Medical Center, University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands;
• Prof. Dr. Cees Noordam, Centre for Paediatric Endocrinology Zurich (PEZZ), Zurich, Switzerland; Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands;
• Dr. Ishwarlal Jialal, UCDAVIS School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA.

The latest official CiteScore (2022 Scopus data) of the Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN: 2077-0383) is 5.4, ranking 137/830 (Q1) in the area of “General Medicine”. The current Impact Factor of JCM is 3.9 (2022), ranking 58/167 (Q2) in the category “Medicine, General & Internal”.

To access more journal statistics please click here.

To access more Section information, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/sections/Endocrinology_Metabolism.