Asia Pacific Allergy: a successful first year and the future

Let’s celebrate the first anniversary of Asia Pacific Allergy (AP Allergy), the official journal of the Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI)! Since the launching ceremony on November 6, 2010 and its inaugural issue release on April 30, 2011, AP Allergy had a very successful first year. AP Allergy has published twenty three review articles which were recruited from Australia (3), India (3), Japan (2), Korea (7), Malaysia (1), Singapore (4), Sri Lanka (1), Sweden (1) and Thailand (1). A total of sixteen original articles from Australia (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Japan (3), Korea (4), Philippines (4), Sri Lanka (1) and Thailand (1) have been published. Four case reports from Indonesia (1), Korea (2), and UK (1) have been published. After the launching of e-submission system, the submission of the original articles is increasing week by week. AP Allergy is an open access journal and now indexed/ tracked/ covered by PubMed, PubMed Central, CAB Abstracts, Global Health, CrossRef and Google Scholar databases. Especially, it took just 6 months from the release of the inaugural issue to be indexed by PubMed and PubMed Central in November 2011. Everything started when I received a phone call from professor Sang-il Lee, the founding editor and the Editor-in-Chief, in June 2010. Since then task force team was organized and we worked very hard on the launch of the journal. This journal could be managed with many splendid and wonderful persons, especially professor Choon-Shil Lee from Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea who is my mentor, Mr. Inkwon Hwang from Inkwon and Partners who designed this beautiful journal cover and layout, Ms. Jung-min Nam, the manuscript editor, Ms. Nan-Kyeong Woo, and Ms. Hye-sook Jang who worked enormously hard for the manuscript editing, the publication of printed copies, and the on-line publication. I’d like to thank the entire editorial team for their enormous efforts and contribution (Fig. 1). I must thank the executive committee members of APAAACI and the editorial board members who strongly supported this journal. I’d like to thank especially professor Hiok Hee Chng, professor Bee Wah Lee, professor Bernard Thong from Singapore, professor Ashok Shah from India, professor Connie H. Katelaris, A/