J Young Pharm. 2011: What are we aiming at?

A journal is always judged based on the quality of papers, such as original papers, reviews, editorials, letters to the editor, being published and these articles play a most crucial role in research process. A high-quality publication is a means of science communication and collaboration of scientists in their field of expertise. High-quality publications attract more attention of other researchers, stimulating new ideas and becoming highly cited. They boost authors' research profile, strengthen positions of institutions supporting scientific productivity, and increase chances to get funding for future research studies. Currently, in most countries, academic promotion of an individual, recruitment, and distribution of financial sources for research are all subjected to the evaluation of a researcher/institution profile in world renowned indexing To achieve leading positions in academics and scientific field, academic and research institutions worldwide are now strongly encouraged to improve the quality of research studies and to publish papers in peer-reviewed journals visible in most prestigious indexing databases. Periodical Directory. We are aiming at inclusion in Institution of Scientific Information (ISI) during this year. J Young Pharm. is also expecting SJR Ranking by the end of this year as we are already in SCOPUS. Figure 1 and Table 1 show the rate of acceptance/rejection rate for the past 2 years; we have drastically improved the refining of papers in the last year, as it can be seen, our rejection Figure 1: Acceptance and rejection rate of J Young Pharm. during the past 2 years (Courtesy: journalonweb) rate is higher when compared to the year 2009. Combined efforts of authors, reviewers, editorial board members, and of course, publisher will further improve the quality of papers being submitted and published.