The IJOEM: Any Progress?

Surfing on the wings of time, days turned into weeks. Weeks turned into months. And, I found myself at a point to write you again—three months after the first issue of The IJOEM. Since then, many things happened: the Journal was welcomed by various healthcare professionals so that its Web site (www.theijoem.com and www.theijoem.org), received more than 60 000 hits almost three weeks after it was launched on late December 2009. Most of the visits were from Iran and the United States. The articles published in the first issue have been well received and downloaded between 109 and 195 times by the end of February 2010. Our Journal is now well-known by robots of various Web search engines including Google and Yahoo. It is now indexed by Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and by the Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region (IMEMR). The IJOEM has also entered into an electronic licensing relationship with EBSCO Publishing, the world’s most prolific aggregator of full text journals, magazines and other sources. The full text of the Journal will shortly be found on EBSCO Publishing’s databases. We will endeavor to have the Journal indexed by other services over the next year.