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CytoJournal organized its first Peer-Reviewer's Retreat of 2006 during the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Annual Meeting at Atlanta on Feb 12, 2006. The major topics discussed were open access, peer review, and impact factors. Representative participants volunteered to join the task force to prepare an instructional guide for peer-reviewing cytopathology manuscripts. Concern about the impact factor for CytoJournal was discussed. A feedback to its readers and authors was recommended. Impact factor calculation needs at least three years of journal statistics. It is only possible after two years from the time a journal is first accepted by Thomson-ISI for citation tracking. CytoJournal is still too new for an impact factor to be calculated. However, general progress of CytoJournal suggests an encouraging pattern for high impact factor.

Keynotes from the New Editor-in-Chief of <b><i>Acta Cytologica</i></b> and ‘Announcement of First Time <b><i>Cytojournal</i></b> Impact Factor for 2012 Coincides with <b><i>Cytojournal</i></b> Decade Celebration (2004-2013)'

“…Eighty-one percent of all the citations in the reference list in the editorial were from Cytojournal articles and only 19% were from other journals. Similar trends can be observed in other editorials, letters to the editor and editor's replies [4]. These are examples of manipulation by self-citations or selective citations.…”

“…Clearly, this would have resulted in more citations for Cytojournal and thus increase IF; a quick scan of articles in previous issues showed that most of the cited articles were by Cytopathology Foundation members, the editors and editorial members of Cytojournal ! Although most of the original articles have citations that are not biased, the letters to the editor and the editor's replies were ‘loaded' with Cytojournal citations [1,4]. This is just one way that editors can maneuver a surge of the IF of their journal.…”

“…IF is a citation indicator and can therefore be affected by many factors not related to the quality or contents of a journal, e.g. turnover, selective inclusion of certain ‘highly citable' articles and authors' self-citations [3,4]. Second, the statement ‘Open access charter increases the number of citations per article with an ultimately positive impact for individual authors, Cytojournal and global readership' means that more easily accessible articles that are not necessarily of high quality are more likely to be cited.…”

Thank you reviewers- CytoJournal 2007

“…Their time and efforts for reviewing the manuscripts to improve their quality is commendable. A high standard of peer-review process in timely fashion is very important component of CytoJournal [27]. …”

Why should you publish in the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology?

“…″We as academicians strive to create wonderful sculptures in the form of published research in the hope of sharing it with all our colleagues and the general public.″3 No researcher would like that his/her article is not read due to monetary constraints of the reader to pay for journal access since that would restrict its readership to only a privileged few. ′Open access′ fulfills the ultimate goal of disseminating and sharing scholarly information.…”