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Indian Dermatology Online Journal Editorial Board Meeting, 2023

Year: 2023
Type: paratext
Abstract: The year 2023 has been a year of many first time for us at the journal. Indian Dermatology Online Journal (IDOJ) conducted its first physical editorial board meeting on 27th August 2023 at IADVL head quarter's office, New Delhi. The editors, the editorial board members, Dr Vijay Zawar (President IADVL), Dr Dinesh Kumar Devaraj (Hon. Secretary General, IADVL), and Dr Savita Somaiah (Treasurer, IADVL) graced the occasion with their presence [Figure 1]. The official proceedings started with the welcome address by the Editor in Chief, Dr K. A. Seetharam. Dr Vijay Zawar, President IADVL who spoke first followed by Dr. Dinesh Kumar Devaraj were in high appreciation of the excellent job undertaken by the IDOJ team to maintain the journal standards and maintaining the timely publishing of issues. They conveyed the appreciation on behalf of the executive committee of IADVL, for impactor factor achievement of 1.7 which is another first time for the journal. Dr. Savitha Somaiah appreciated the editors for getting enough funds to the journal through academic grants.Figure 1: IDOJ editorial board meeting, 27.08.2023Dr. K.A. Seetharam presented the IDOJ journey and the performance review for the year 2022 and 2023. He stressed the importance of early reviewing, and all efforts are being made to bring the accepted article to AOP with in 4 months from submission. He has appreciated the efforts by the previous editorial teams, headed by Dr Shyam Verma and Dr Sunil Dogra for their excellent contribution towards IDOJ, which made possible for its first impact factor. Dr. Dipankar De, associate editor has expressed thanks to IADVL executive committee for approving and facilitating the physical editorial board meeting. He has suggested IDOJ going for subscription basis rather than complimentary issues to all medical colleges. Dr Dinesh Kumar Devaraj also seconded, that it is a good idea and at the same time requested to submit a proposal to IADVL central council and General body to take it further. Dr. K.T. Ashique, associate editor, who is there with the IDOJ since its inception in 2010 has reiterated the challenges they faced since the beginning. After apprising the house in brief about the evolution and growth of the journal to its present status, he explained the new reviewer data base, that had tremendous response and shall be put to use for the benefit of the journal to speed up the review process. Dr. K.A. Seetharam has discussed various issues with all the respective members regarding submission difficulties, reviewer issues, section editor's concerns and the production problems. The obstacles and the solutions were discussed threadbare. The feedback from the authors, reviewers, section editors, was discussed thoroughly and queries were addressed appropriately. Dr Sasi Attili has given an interesting presentation about future challenges, the journal may face regarding artificial intelligence and ChatGPT. Mr Vikas Chawla, Head-Publishing, Medknow-Wolters Kluwer India Pvt. Ltd was invited for the meeting. He discussed all the technical problems, production issues and subscription platform updates. He has suggested solutions for some then and there and for the remaining, he said that he would discuss with the respective teams and return. The entire editorial team has appreciated his presence and his discussions and expressed thanks to him and his team. The editorial team felicitated the immediate past editor, Dr Sunil Dogra for all his efforts towards IDOJ in achieving this impact factor (1.7) [Figure 2].Figure 2: Felicitation to Dr. Sunil Dogra, Immediate Past Editor, IDOJAll the attendees were in special appreciations on to the office staff at the IADVL Headquarters for arranging the logistics for the meeting. It was a memorable day spent at the association headquarters and each one of us look forward to a more fruitful time ahead for IDOJ. The meeting ended with the vote of thanks by Dr. K. T. Ashique appreciating all the members for taking part in the very fructuous meeting with lot of inputs.
DOI: 10.4103/idoj.idoj_762_23
Language: English
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4387967330
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