New Beginnings for Medical Gas Research

Research We are pleased to announce that Medical Gas Research is now being published with Medknow Publications! Med-know Publications is a part of Wolters Kluwer Health and is among the largest open access publishers worldwide with over 350 print and online journals. Medknow also provides immediate free access without charging for submission, processing, or publication of articles. This has allowed Medknow journals to have more than a half a million article downloads each month. In addition, Medical Gas Research will now be directly indexed in the Web of Science through the Emerging Sources Citation Index at the time of publication. The Emerging Sources Citation Index, launched by Thomson Reuters in November 2015, will add more high quality publications from emerging scientific fields to the Web of Science universe and will transfer qualified journals to the Science Citation Index Expanded each year. Medical Gas Research was first created in 2011 to provide a stage for researchers in both clinical medicine and basic sciences to communicate, exchange information, and publish articles relating to the medical gas family. The medical gas family is quite large and consists of oxygen, was innovative since it was the first international journal that focused on medical gas research on the basic, clinical, and translational sciences levels such as anesthesiology, diving medicine, emergency medicine, pharmacology, physiology, and neuroscience (Zhang, 2011). A few years ago the goal of Medical Gas Research was to be at the forefront of leading the discussion on how medical gases can be practically applied and offer therapeutic options to numerous medical complications (Liu et al., 2011). The journal also aimed to cover technical and historical insights, as well as, ethical and social issues as it relates to the medical gas research field. Since then we have been privileged to share with the world over 120 publications relating to medical gases and their applications over those years. Last year we received and published articles ranging on a variety of topics such as the pharmacokinetics of chronic administration of xenon and argon gases (Katz et al., 2015), the potential of normobaric hyperoxia as a treatment for acute ischemic stroke (Weaver and Liu, 2015), and the effectiveness of clinical application of hyperbaric EDITORIAL oxygen treatment in various diseases like traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder Also one article demonstrated that hyperbaric oxygen treatment was effective in reducing acute distal colitis in rats by down-regulating pro-inflammatory …