Personalized Medicine : Foreword

Abstract

The key focus areas included policy, ethics and the clinical applications of PME; we would expect these areas and many more to be focuses in the coming year. "Welcome to Volume 15 of Personalized Medicine (PME). In this Foreword, we will present some of the highlights of the last 12 months as well as discuss what we are looking forward to in the year ahead.We would also like to take this opportunity to thank our readers, reviewers, authors and editorial board members for their support in the last year and look forward to working with everyone as we move into the New Year. Content highlights of 20172017 was another great year for the journal, with a number of high quality submissions and articles looking better than ever on our new website [1]. The top ten most read articles of the past year are shown in Table 1; these articles show the diverse research that is being done in the field as well as some of the key focus areas. The key focus areas included policy, ethics and the clinical applications of PME; we would expect these areas and many more to be focuses in the coming year. Readership demographicsThe readership of the journal is shown in Figure 1, with the majority of readers coming from North America (47%) and Europe (32%). While our content is reaching scientific communities that are more established in PME, we would hope to see growth in our readership in emerging scientific communities as PME becomes more established.

Welcome to the 16th volume of Personalized Medicine

“…In 2018, our content was mostly read by experts in the USA (45%) and the UK (30%) (Figure 1). However, we also saw an increase in readership in Asia from 15 to 20%, compared with 2017 [9]. While our content continues to have impact across Europe and the West, we expect to see a continued growth in emerging scientific communities and look forward to continuing the circulation of our content to an increasingly global audience.…”