E D I T O R I A L Editorial S. M. Balaji Published online: 18 December 2010 � Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons of India 2010 Warm regards to all. My term of editorship has come to an end. I wish to con- solidate the development that has been achieved during this term. At present, in 2010 the journal had received 246 manuscripts till mid November. This indicates that the journal is well received and is much sought after for publication. A prime achievement of the editorial team in the tenure is making arrangement for online viewing and online publication even before printing the journal. The custom- ized login ID and passwords have been despatched to all members of AOMSI as per mailing list addresses. Many members have received their passwords and have logged in the same. The editorial and peer review process of JMOSI has been completely digitalized and available in the web- site which can be accessed world wide. We have received 246 submissions in the year 2010 (till November 15th). Of this, 45 (18.3%) articles are under tech- nical check process, while 144 (58.53%) were accepted after transparent review process. 27(10.8%) of all submitted arti- cles were rejected for various reasons. The acceptance rate has been escalated to 58% during the period of editorship. Current year technical check requires 5.6 days. In 2010, the editorial team requested for 1,442 reviews from 488 potential review- ers. The average number of reviews per reviewer was 3. It took approximately 12.9 days to complete a review. The mean time taken for a decision was 53.8 days. The mean turn-around time of an article was about 7.7 weeks. About 144 letters of acceptance were issued by the editorial team based on the reviewer comments. At present, the editorial team has about 190 articles being queued up for publication. Of the 246 submissions, 45 (18.3%) were international submissions from 16 countries. Submissions have been from Japan, Brazil, Iran, Turkey, South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, UK, USA and several other countries. Original researches from international submission have been con- sidered solely for the purpose of the increasing the quantity of original researches, citation and meeting standards of the PubMed indexing so as to get JMOSI indexed. Visibility and access of the article improved in 2010. Our journal continued to be recognized by several inter- national indices including OCLC and Summon by serial Solutions. All of our published articles were visible in Google Scholar. The publication internal work flow has been suitably modified in June–July of this year to suit the PubMed acceptance protocol. This is one of the much needed herculean task the editorial team undertook to index the journal in Pubmed database. JMOSI has 475 Institutions across globe accessing the journal through various means. Of these 475 institutions, 305 are from Australia and Asia and 165 in Europe. For the first time our own journal has reached the libraries of Europe and Americas. This accounts for the increasing quality of manuscripts submitted for our journal. The journal that was a financially unstable venture for decades has now reached a stage where it creates revenue in spite of several expenditures. The present editorial team has made the following achievements in the journal during its term—Global acceptance of AOMSI and penetration of the name of JOMSI into international libraries, indexing of journal in Google scholar, OCLC and Summon by serial Solutions, Quality and appearance of journal has been made to meet international standards, internal workflow made compatible to meet PubMed Index, Indian and International submissions is on the increase, subscription base has been widened and international subscription has S. M. Balaji (&) No. 30, Kavinagar Bharathi Dasan Road, Teynampet, Chennai 600 018, Tamilnadu, India e-mail: smbalaji@gmail.com 123 J. Maxillofac. Oral Surg. (Sept-Dec 2010) 9(4):320–321 DOI 10.1007/s12663-010-0142-4 increased, Quality advertisements have been increased and most importantly we have revenue being generated from the journal. I take this opportunity to thank all the faculties and researchers for considering JMOSI for publishing their work, sponsors for advertisements, and reviewers for their support. I would also like to thank co-publishers Springer India for their support in making JMOSI a truly world class journal. I would also like to thank the entire editorial team for their support during this tenure. J. Maxillofac. Oral Surg. 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