Editorial
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

the first four issues of the Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy were a great challenge for the editors and members of editorial board because of relatively few radiotherapists in the world devoting his life to brachytherapy. But at the same time, it brought a lot of satisfaction. Brachytherapy journal what already exists showed us the way to create a second Journal dedicated entirely to the subject of brachytherapy. It seems that another journal can essentially improve possibility to present knowledge and achievements in the field of brachytherapy, and to build an international team dedicating his time and effort to original work – scientific journal. Many scientists from all over the world joined us. Eminent brachytherapists, radiation oncologists and physicists lead the journal through this transitional period of its international development. We welcome now Bengt Johannson from Orebro, Sweden as a new member of Editorial Board, which means, that 69 scientists from 27 countries lead this Journal! And we have published already 30 papers in 2009!
In the coming year of 2010 the Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy will be issued 4 times on paper and in electronic form, as it was in 2009. The present fourth issue of the JCB ends up the first year of editing our new Journal (just like a baby becoming a child!). Six manuscripts are published in this issue, concerning prostate cancer, breast cancer, head and neck cancer, lung cancer and preliminary report from Mexico about cervix cancer. Additionally we publish one physics contribution. Presented articles enclose results of clinical researches as well as physicist papers. In the next issues of our magazine we are planning to initiate a Pictorial Essay which is a presentation of selected clinical cases for the purpose of exchanging clinical experiences as well as doctors and students training. This Essay will be also accessible on our webpage. The main coordinator of this initiative will be Dr Alfredo Polo.
In December the Editorial Office along with the Publisher have started the process of indexing JCB. Data were send to Scopus, Index Copernicus, EMBASE (Excerpta Medica), Sci-Finder. Next planned index is Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch). Indexes from so called Philadelphia list (PubMed, Index Medicus/MEDLINE, Current Contents, etc.) and Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition are the next step in journal indexing. In order to achieve this goal,...


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