Report of the Korean Journal of Urology Editorial Board Meeting 2014

There were various and heated discussions and comments about the current state and development strategies of the KJU. Professor Kwangsung Park, Editor-in-Chief of KJU, made the opening remarks and introduced the great news about the KJU. In July 2014, KJU began to be indexed in the MEDLINE database. The articles of KJU are indexed in MEDLINE back through the January 2014 issue. The assistant editor reported on the current state of KJU. The number of submissions to KJU has consistently increased, especially after publishing the KJU exclusively in English after 2009. Between January and October 2014, about 60% of the manuscripts submitted to KJU were from outside of Korea. Among them, 57.8% of manuscripts came from Asian countries, including Turkey, India, Iran, Japan, and China (Fig. 1). Approximately 30% of submissions were case reports and 59% of submissions were original articles. As the number of submissions has increased , the acceptance rate of the articles has gradually decreased. The overall acceptance rate was 59.vited lecture on " Metrics of KJU and Suggestion for Improvement of KJU. " Authors from 17 countries published articles in the KJU between January and October 2014. The impact factor of KJU from the Web of Science and that from SCImago Journal began to increase dramatically in 2011 [1] and have gradually increased every year with the increasing number of citations of KJU. The KJU has already been established as an international journal, because more than 85% of the citations come from international researchers. Authors from 68 countries cited KJU