What are we and what do we expect to become?

EDITORIAL What are we and what do we expect to become? ଝ ¿Qué somos y qué queremos ser? A major medical association needs a powerful, exciting, balanced, training medical journal, which is attractive to authors and readers, and which is also sustainable, so that it can endure. ActasUrológicasEspañolas, official journal of the Spanish Association of Urology and the American Urological Confederation, will soon meet its fourth decade. A firm journey in which 2 generations of urologists have been the main architects and have been trained with its lines and works... Actas Urológicas Españolas has experienced firsthand the exciting scientific development of our profession. At our most recent stage, I mean the last 4 years, many good things have happened. Coinciding with the celebration of the centenary of our association, the first impact factor of Actas Urológicas Españolas (FI 2010) was recognized in 2011. With hard work, perseverance, and quite rightly we have been able to gradually increase it in subsequent years, until we achieved that today Actas Urológicas Españolas is in an improved position in the order of the specialty. According to Journal Citation Report (JCR) Science Edition Actas Urológicas Españolas is 57 out of 73 journals in the category Urology & Nephrol-ogy worldwide. Similarly, SCImago Journal & Country Rank considers it in 28th position (Q2/Q3) out of 55. This has even more merit when we recognize that Actas Urológicas Españolas has overtaken many other journals of our discipline, journals in which we have looked frequently and with a degree of admiration. The rest of urological publications in Span-ish are not even on the list and the ones written in French, German or Italian are well below. If we pay attention to the list of Spanish journals of different medical and non-medical disciplines that have their impact factor recognized in Thomson Reuters Actas Urológicas Españolas is again in a very respectable position. Out of 125 magazines ours rank twenty-sixth in order. This has merit, especially considering that 13 of those leading it have an ଝ Please cite this article as: Angulo JC. ¿Qué somos y qué queremos ser? Actas Urol Esp. 2014;38:279. English name and are widespread in the English-speaking world. But let us focus on the key point of this editorial. Actas Urológicas Españolas is what it is for its history, for the work of many authors and reviewers, and because we carried out a firm strategic plan for …