Journal of Clinical Medicine 2024 Editorial Board Meeting of the Section “Dermatology” Held on 30 May 2024

The Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM, ISSN: 2077-0383) held an Editorial Board meeting for the Section “Dermatology” on 30 May 2024. We appreciate the Section Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Alan Fleischer, for hosting this meeting; five Editorial Board Members were in attendance.

The meeting started with a presentation about the development of the journal, as well as the Section “Dermatology”in particular and the following information was presented:

Journal history, publication statistics, distribution of scholars (2018–2023), the benefits of open access, journal awards, conference sponsorship, webinars, society collaborations, and promotion on social media;
Section highly cited papers, article types, graphical abstract/video abstract, geographical distribution of the Section’s Editorial Board Members, Special Issues, and Section statistics.

At this Editorial Board meeting, the EBMs had a positive discussion about submissions’ diversity of country types, Section visibility, journal and Section promotion at relevant conferences, popular topics (such as alopecia, drug development in the field, and the personalized treatment of melanoma), recruitment of Editorial Board Members, etc. The meeting ended with some suggestions from our Editorial Board Members regarding the improvement of our editorial process and suggestions for marketing activities.

We would like to thank every Editorial Board Member and contributing academic for their support and we look forward to receiving more suggestions so that we can continue our progress together.

Attendee list (in no particular order):

Alan Fleischer (Section Editor-in-Chief), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA;
Guy Orchard, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK;
Dr. Carlo Pincelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy;
Dr. Marcus Schmitt-Egenolf, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;
Dr. Reinhart M. Speeckaert, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium;
Yolanda Gilaberte, University Hospital Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain.

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 58/325 (Q1) in the “Medicine, General & Internal” category.

To access more journal statistics, please click here.

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

JCM Editorial Office