Endocrinology and Metabolism Is Indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index

On behalf of the members of the editorial board, I am very pleased to inform our readers that Endocrinology and Metabolism (EnM, pISSN 2093-596X, eISSN 2093-5978) is now indexed by Clarivate Analytics’ Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), which is a new index in the Web of Scienc Core Collection. In an official letter sent on August 1, 2017, Clarivate Analytics informed me that starting in 2017, EnM will be indexed and abstracted in ESCI. As the Editor-in-Chief of EnM, I am very pleased to hear this delightful news. Inclusion in ESCI can provide more discoverability for sources under evaluation as part of the rigorous journal selection process for inclusion in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), or Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). EnM is the official journal of the Korean Endocrine Society (KES). It is published on a quarterly basis with articles in English accepted through the process of peer review. The KES published this journal under the title Journal of the Korean Endocrine Society (J Korean Endocr Soc, pISSN 1015-6380) starting in 1986. Its title was changed to Endocrinology and Metabolism in 2010 (Table 1). Index words from the medical subject headings (MeSH) list of Index Medicus are included in each article to facilitate article searches. The journal is also published on the official EnM website (http://www.e-enm.org) and is widely distributed to institutions all over the world. It is now indexed in KoreaMed, the Korean Medical Citation Index (KoMCI), KoreaMed Synapse, Korea Citation Index (KCI), ScienceCentral, PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, EBSCO, Embase, DOI/ Crossref, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Google Scholar, and ESCI. Its affiliated societies are the Korean Metabolic Bone Diseases Study Group, the Korean Neuroendocrine Study Group, and the Thyroid Division of the Korean Endocrine Society. It is extraordinary that EnM has shown a steep increase in its self-calculated impact factor, which was calculated to be 1.5 in December 2015 and 1.75 in December 2016. The editorial board of EnM includes world-renowned scientists and clinicians who have published their work in major journals such as Cell and Nature as principal authors. We have editors from 19 nations from five continents throughout the world, and the submission rate from outside Korea is about 50% and is increasing. Manuscripts have been submitted by authors from 22 nations, and EnM is growing as a true international journal. Citations have been mainly made by authors outside Korea, in excellent journals (Fig. 1). The KES has held an annual international conference, the Seoul International Congress of Endocrinology and Metabolism (SICEM), since 2013, and the fifth SICEM was successfully held in April 2017 (http://www.sicem.kr). Hundreds of foreign endocrinologists and many world-renowned scientists have participated in SICEM every year, and they have submitted their excellent work to EnM. Thus, it can be said that SICEM and EnM are working together hand-in-hand for scien-