ULTRASONOGRAPHY: on the way to becoming an internationally renowned journal

After the founding of the Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (KSUM) in 1980, a great deal of academic experience and knowledge had been accumulated, and the Journal of Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine was first published in December 1982 as an official scientific journal focused on medical ultrasound. Including the most recent five issues of Ultrasonography since January 2014, a total of 98 issues have been published up to the present. At the time of the first anniversary of the conversion from a domestic journal to an international open access journal published in English [1], on behalf of the editorial committee, I wish to express my appreciation to all the prior editors-in-chief for the early establishment and maintenance of a valuable tradition through this professional journal in medical ultrasound. During the first year of our journal, we made every effort to catch up with international standards and even lead the way. Ultrasonography has become indexed by PubMed Central and covered by PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Ultrasonography[jour]) since July 2014, and full-text papers can be searched and freely downloaded from the earliest electronically published status, ahead of print. For identification of individual authors, the readers could access the ORCID (http://orcid.org/) identification of the authors via the journal website (http://www.e-ultrasonography.org/) as well as in the printed journals. Our journal submission page (http://submit.e-ultrasonography.org/) provides CrossCheck (http:// www.crossref.org/crosscheck/index.html) information for all individual submitted papers to prevent any potential plagiarism. The CrossMark identification service (http://www. crossref.org/crossmark/) is also available at the journal website to update the status of all papers as they are published. Ultrasonography encourages video presentations to enhance understanding of the real-time properties of ultrasound procedures, and we have a YouTube address (http://www.youtube.com/user/Ultrasonography2014/) in addition to providing direct viewing of all video clips associated with published papers on the journal website. After the launching of the journal website, a total of ten thousands visit sessions from 115 different countries have been recorded (https://www.google.com/analytics/). Among the 40 Editor-in-Chief Ultrasonography http://dx.doi.org/10.14366/usg.14055 pISSN: 2288-5919 • eISSN: 2288-5943 Ultrasonography 2015;34:1-2