HBSN Annual Report (2016) Editorial Office editor@thehbsn.org
Basic Information Open-access Peer-reviewed Published Bi-monthly 2012: Launched in Dec. 2014: Indexed in PubMed/PMC 2016: Indexed in ESCI New findings in hepatobiliary diseases and nutrition.
Editor-in-Chief On behalf of the editorial team, I would like to express sincere appreciation for the enthusiastic and vigorous support and contributions from all editorial board members, guest editors, authors, reviewers and readers. Yilei Mao, MD, PhD Department of Liver Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
Distribution of Editorial Board Members All Together 49 Members 1 Editor-in-Chief 5 Deputy Editors-in-Chief 43 Editorial Board 3 New Members Prof. Thomas M. van Gulik, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Prof. Lau Wan-yee Joseph, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Chung-Mau Lo, The University of Hong Kong, China USA 39% Netherlands 2% Japan 10% France 8% Canada 2% China 23% Korea 2% Israel 2% UK 2% Thailand 2% Germany 4% Sweden 4%
Number of Published Articles (results by year) 90 68 45 23 89 articles published in 2016. Number of articles has been increasing every year. 0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Note: HBSN was launched in December 2012.
Diverse Types of Articles Published in 2016 Case Report 4% Images in Clinical Medicine 8% Commentary 8% Others 16% Editorial 17% Original Article 24% Review Article 24% In 2016, HBSN has published 89 manuscripts, among which there are 42 review articles and original articles. Other article types include how we do it, meet the professor, preface, etc.
International Diversity of Corresponding Authors in 2016 Others Corresponding authors of 18 articles published in 2016 come from 20 countries, 20% of them from the USA. USA Japan France China Germany Italy Canada Korea India Egypt Netherlands Algeria UK Singapore Greece Spain Chile Turkey
Citations in 2016 (results by month) 700 606 525 350 241 175 71 0 14 0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Note: Data were collected from Web of Science Core Collection, Dec. 19, 2016.
Predicted IF in 2016: 3.05 Total citation number in 2016: 365 The number of citations received by articles published in 2014 and 2015: 220 The total number of articles published in 2014 and 2015: 143 The total number of original articles, review articles and case reports, published in 2014 and 2015: 72 Predicted impact factor in 2016: 3.05 In 2017, HBSN will be evaluated by SCI. Hopefully, we will be indexed by SCI and get an impact factor soon. Note: Data were collected from Web of Science Core Collection on Dec. 21, 2016.
Monthly Retrievals in PubMed in 2016 13000 Number of Retrieval 9750 6500 3250 Retrieval of HBSN in PubMed is increasing significantly, with a total of 123,566 times in 2016. 0 Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Note: Data were collected from PMC Publisher Services, Jan. 8, 2017
Website Visits in 2016 All together 41,212 visitors. Readers who visited HBSN website in 2016 were from diverse countries, with the majority from the USA, followed by China, India and Italy. Note: Data were collected from Google Analytics on Dec. 27th, 2016.
Most Viewed Articles Published in 2016 Issue Title Link Vol 5, No 4 Clinical application of indocyanine greenfluorescence imaging http://hbsn.amegroups.com/article/view/8066/11354 during hepatectomy Vol 5, No 4 Retinoids in the pancreas http://hbsn.amegroups.com/article/view/7950/9535 Vol 5, No 1 Intratumor heterogeneity, variability and plasticity: questioning the current concepts in classification http://hbsn.amegroups.com/article/view/9318/10024 and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma Vol 5, No 2 Surgery for gallstone disease during pregnancy does not increase fetal or maternal mortality: a metaanalysis http://hbsn.amegroups.com/article/view/8196/9540 Note: Data were collected from Google Analysis on Dec. 29, 2016.
Most Viewed Articles Published in 2016 Issue Title Link Vol 5, No 1 Retinol as electron carrier in redox signaling, a new frontier in vitamin A research http://hbsn.amegroups.com/article/view/8909/9536 Organ-specific concept and Vol 5, No 1 controversy for premalignant http://hbsn.amegroups.com/article/view/8928/9545 lesions and carcinogenesis of gallbladder cancer Short and long-term outcomes Vol 5, No 1 of laparoscopic compared to open liver resection for http://hbsn.amegroups.com/article/view/9705/11352 colorectal liver metastases Vol 5, No 4 Nutrition assessment and its effect on various clinical variables among patients undergoing liver transplant http://hbsn.amegroups.com/article/view/10232/11359 Note: Data were collected from Google Analysis on Dec. 29, 2016.
Special Focus Published in 2016 Special Focus (V5N1) Retinoid Biology Part 2 William S. Blaner, PhD. Columbia University, USA. Nuttaporn Wongsiriroj, PhD. Mahidol University, Thailand.
Special Focus (V5N2) Living Donor Liver Transplantation Giuliano Testa, MD, FACS, MBA. Baylor University Medical Center, USA.
Special Focus (V5N4) Techniques and Innovations in Liver Surgery Patrick Pessaux, MD, PhD. Nouvel Hôpital Civil, France.
Special Focus (V5N5&V5N6) Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Yasuhiko Sugawara, MD, PhD. Kumamoto University, Japan.
Special Focus (V5N6) 20 Years of Milan Criteria: Re-assessment J. Michael Millis, MD. University of Chicago, USA.
Upcoming Focused Issues in 2017 Focused Issue Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Timothy M. Pawlik, MD, PhD. The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center, USA.
Focused Issue Robotic Hepatobiliary Surgery Yuman Fong, MD. City of Hope Medical Center, USA. Yanghee Woo, MD. City of Hope Medical Center, USA. Pier Giulianotti, MD. University of Illinois, USA.
Focused Issue Minimum Invasive Pancreatic Surgery Long R. Jiao, MD. Imperial College London, UK.
Focused Issue Donor Specific Antibodies and Liver Transplantation Vivian McAlister, MB, FACS. General Surgery Experimental Laboratory, University Hospital, Canada.
Focused Issue Liver Metastases Arie Ariche, MD. Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel.
International Meeting 2016 Hepatocellular Carcinoma 20 years after the Milan Criteria Legacy and Future and Academic Skills Workshop was held in Sept. 16th-17th in Chicago University Beijing Center. News about this meeting: Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Academic Skills Workshop cosponsored by Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition and AME Publishing Company
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