An eventful year for the Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions

(page number not for citation purposes) 2016, Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The year 2016 marked the 13th year of publication for the Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions (JEEHP) and the 12th year of my editorship. This year, several events and successes for JEEHP are worth noting. An important accomplishment this year was becoming indexed in MEDLINE beginning with the first article of 2016, as I announced previously. I received the letter of acceptance from the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee of the Electronic Journals Support Team, United States National Library of Medicine in March. It is great privilege to have been indexed in MEDLINE because it is so difficult to win inclusion. On the other hand, the Content Selection & Advisory Board of Scopus informed us in May that our journal's application to be listed in Scopus was rejected. The staff of Scopus has reported that JEEHP can re-submit the application after February 1, 2018. We will be well prepared for this resubmission. The third event of 2016 for JEEHP was being accepted for listing in the KoreaMed database (http://koreamed.org). The journal passed the evaluation by the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors in October. This was the second evaluation , after the first in 2009. The comments from the review committee were as follows: The journal's scope, instructions to authors, author's role, ethical guidelines, and preparation of manuscripts were described precisely. Articles on medical health education from a variety of countries demonstrated the characteristics of an international journal very well. It is difficult to find any errors in the title, author, abstract, main text, and references based on the style and format of the journal. And, the effort of editor and provision of the budget by the publisher to maintain high quality publication should be greatly appreciated. These comments were encouraging and correspond well with my own assessment of JEEHP. The next major event of 2016 for JEEHP was learning that the journal has not yet been accepted for SCIE indexing. This was confirmed during a meeting in December in Philadelphia, PA, United States with the editors of Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters' intellectual property and science business). The status will be re-evaluated …