Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

“Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy” enters a new era with the year 2014. In March 2009 first issue was published and during this first 5 years our Journal was published quarterly. Timely and current exchange of the most recent scientific information is critical for basic and clinical research. Therefore, the Editorial Board has decided on increasing the number of issues published from 4 to 6 per year from 2015. This should also meet the expectations of our readers who would like to have their papers not only evaluated professionally and competently, but also processed as quickly as possible. It is my great pleasure to inform the readers that the journal “Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy” has increased its impact on the national and international flow of scientific information as reflected by the indexing in PubMed and PubMed Central. Efforts to incorporate our journal to the Philadelphia list continues. “Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy” is and will stay an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

After discussion with our Co-Editors and Editorial Board, we have been starting remodeling the team directing the newspaper. Changes in Co-Editors and Editorial Team are already visible in this issue and will continue till the June issue. It is associated with an increasing number of articles and numerous responsibilities that fall on the shoulders of all the co-editors. Number of co-editors should be therefore increased. Thank you sincerely to all the existing members of the Editorial Board. Without you our newspaper would not have a chance to develop.

Due to increase brachytherapy possibilities all over the world and progressing knowledge in this field, we have created, supported by Nucletron, an Elekta Company, a new Educational section of “Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy”. It is a special section in the Journal in which healthcare professionals (in brachytherapy) can publish articles (on their own initiative or per request) about their clinical experiences in relation to brachytherapy with the objective to share these with their peers. Of course, this section is open for all brachytherapy users. Clinical...


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