Editorial

61Urology Journal    Vol 4    No 2    Spring 2007

Our Journal Indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed

Urol J. 2007;4:61. 
www.uj.unrc.ir

I am delighted to announce that in March 2007, the 
Urology Journal was selected by the National Library 
of  Medicine (NLM) to be indexed in MEDLINE/
PubMed, the world’s most heavily used set of  
databases for health and medical professions. This 
encouraged the journal to open up to new topics, 
in turn garnering a broader audience of  readers 
and contributors. Let’s hope we will find ourselves 
going the same route. All articles will be indexed 
from volume 4, issue 1, and the previous issues 
will be also included in the PubMed. Thanks to the 
contributions of  our authors and readers over 3 years 
of  publication, the Urology Journal has proven that it 
has something to offer. The PubMed has become 
the primary information nexus for biomedical 
science and indexing of  the Urology Journal will 
greatly enhance the visibility of  our authors’ work. 
Acceptance in this prominent database speaks not 
only to the importance of  the field, but also to the 
incredibly high quality of  the articles and features 
published to date. I would personally like to thank 
the journal’s Chairman, Professor Simforoosh, for his 
encouragement, and the outstanding editorial board 
for their continuing support, and look forward to 
continuing the progress of  this journal. We greatly 
appreciate our executive editor, Dr Farrokhi; the help 
he provided was invaluable. 

Urology Journal is published quarterly in print format 
and offers review articles, original research, case 
reports, point of  techniques, experimental research, 
and a variety of  added-value content. Rigorous peer 
review and rapid publication ensure that only the 
best quality and pertinent research is published in a 
timely manner. Access to the Urology Journal is also 
currently available based on the Open Access Policy; 
thus, we will be able to deliver the full text articles to 
readers directly from the PubMed page. The editorial 
board, composed of  highly cited researchers from 

all over the world, elicits high quality scientific works 
of  broad interest. Now the Urology Journal is going to 
become among the premier forum for a fast growing 
community of  specialists to address the important 
challenges and advances that are now occurring in 
urological research and molecular medicine. Now, we 
are going to apply for inclusion in the ISI database. 
Our mission is to disseminate the most meritorious 
scientific research produced in the field of  urology 
and the related sciences. To have readers, a new 
publication must prove that it has something to offer. 
It has to be taken seriously. Because of  the increase 
in high quality research conducted in the field and the 
better exposure of  the Urology Journal to the scientific 
community via MEDLINE, the Journal is able to 
attract better quality papers that are potentially more 
worthy of  citation. Therefore, we feel that, if  indexed 
by ISI, the Urology Journal would make an important 
and strategic contribution to the urology literature. 
There is no doubt that indexing in the ISI database 
would provide our journal much greater visibility. 
Our aim is to build a high-quality, comprehensive, 
and balanced reference resource that can be used to 
prepare teaching aids and research presentations, as 
well as to inform residents, scientists, and clinicians. 
The editorial board of  the Urology Journal is proud to 
be among the pioneers of  successful and sustainable 
peer-reviewed journals and again thanks everybody 
who has contributed to this success, most of  all our 
authors, our peer-reviewers and our readers, who 
continue to give us useful feedback. Let us hear from 
you. What do we do right? and where could we do 
better? Our ability to measure the extent to which we 
satisfy our readers will be the ultimate determinant of  
our sustainability. 

Mohammad Reza Safarinejad
Associate Editor, Urology Journal