Editorial

The increase in Chirurgia Journal’s impact factor from 0.34 to 0.77 (more than double therefor) represents an extremely gratifying and, at the same time, encouraging fact for Romanian surgery. This increase reflects first of all the growing value of Romanian surgery, which is in fact the basis of all materials published in our Journal. At the same time, we dare to believe that it also reflects the work of an ambitious Editorial Team that has set its mind and succeeded, in successive stages, to transform a Journal of almost exclusive national impact into one that bears internationally acknowledged impact and that, as we can see, stands out more and more with each passing year. This is proved not only by the number of citations, but also by the fact that there is an increasing number of foreign authors wishing to publish their papers in Chirurgia. The main precepts by which the editorial policy of the Journal was led over the past few years were the following: - increasing exigency in terms of published materials; this was, of course, the primary principle, for which our reviewers must take credit. They have managed to efficiently help authors revise their articles (many of these being published in the revised, “improved” form). They have also played an important role in rejecting articles which were not considered as being of interest, or that presented content errors which could not be amended. - including a number of articles pertaining to surgical specialties derived from general surgery; although limited, this “innovation” proved to be of benefit, as it expanded the thematic span of the Journal. Along with the efforts of our Editorial Team, no less great were those of Celsius Publishing House, materialized in: - the use of all means available in order to promote the Journal on international sites; - the implementation of the “open access” system. Another aspect which deserves to be highlighted is the establishing of a constant regional cooperation: - regional cooperation with similar Journals from Hungary, Serbia and Bulgaria. This latter point is one on which we intend to base the development of our Journal in the years to come, in order to turn it into a stronger one, with larger impact than at present. The proposal of the President of the Romanian Surgical Society, Prof. Eugen Brãtucu, to organize a regional federation of the surgical societies and journals established in our geographical area is starting to resemble more and more an achievable goal. The current Editorial Team intends over the following 3 years to double our current impact factor, a target which I am sure that, with the help of you, our authors and our reviewers first of all, as well as of all those who practice and love surgery, we will attain!

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