TAU Annual Report (2017) Editorial Office tau@amepc.org
Outline of the Report 1. Basic Information 2. Editors-in-Chief 3. Message from the EICs 4. Distribution of Editorial Board Members 5. Number of Published Articles (results by year) 6. Diverse Types of Article Published in 2017 7. International Diversity of Corresponding Authors in 2017 8. Citations of TAU Articles (results by year) 9. Most Viewed Articles Published in 2017 10. Monthly Retrievals in PubMed in 2017 11. Website Visits in 2017 12. Focused Issues Published in 2017 13. Upcoming Focused Issues in 2018 14. International Meetings 15. Introduction of the Journal s Publisher - AME
1. Basic Information 2012: Launched in March 2014: Indexed in Scopus 2014: Endorsed by GUA-CPAM 2015: Published Bimonthly 2015: Indexed in PubMed/PMC 2016: Indexed in ESCI The journal provides current and practical information on basic research and clinical investigations of Urology and Andrology.
2. Editors-in-Chief Ying-Lu Guo, MD Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering Professor and Honorary President Peking University First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China Tom F. Lue, MD, ScD(Hon), FACS Professor and Vice-Chair of Urology Emil Tanagho Endowed Chair in Clinical Urology University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
3. Message from the Editors-in-Chief On behalf of the editorial team, we 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 etc. Ying-Lu Guo Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering Professor and Honorary President of First Affiliated Hospital, Peking University Jan. 3rd, 2018 Tom F. Lue Professor and Vice-Chair of Urology Emil Tanagho Endowed Chair in Clinical Urology UCSF Jan. 3rd, 2018
4. Distribution of Editorial Board Members The Netherlands 1% Australia 3% Canada 1% UK 2% Switzerland 2% Japan 3% Korea 9% China 34% All together 65 Members 2 Editors-in-Chief 2 Associate Editors 61 Editorial Board Members USA 45%
5. Number of Published Articles (results by year) 400 350 300 354 354 articles has been published in 2017 250 200 150 145 Number of articles has been increasing every year. 100 50 48 45 70 83 0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
6. Diverse Types of Article Published in 2017 Perspectives 1% Forwards 4% Commentaries 17% Editorials 28% Others 5% Reviews 36% Among all 354 manuscripts published in 2017, there are 157 Review Articles and Original Articles. The Others section includes types such as Guidelines, Preface, Meeting Report, Correspondence etc. Case report 1% Original Articles 8%
7. International Diversity of Corresponding Authors in 2017 Spain 2% India 2% Germany 3% Canada 4% Korea 1% France 2% Others 6% Qatar 4% Italy 2% DenmarkChina Turkey 1% 1% 1% The Netherlands 1% USA 51% Switzerland 1% Corresponding authors of 354 articles come from 33 countries with 51% of them from USA. UK 5% Brazil 6% Australia 7%
8. Citations of TAU Articles(results by years) 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 971 253 94 2015 2016 2017 The number of total citation has significantly increased to 971 in 2017.! Citation of TAU articles by articles indexed in Web of Science Core Collection has increased rapidly. Note: Data were collected from Web of Science Core Collection on Dec. 27, 2017)
9. Most Viewed Articles Published in 2017 Issue Title Link V6N1 A review of penile elongation surgery http://tau.amegroups.com/article/view/ 13320/13813 V6N1 V6S1 V6S2 V6N4 Penile prosthesis implant: scientific advances and technological innovations over the last four decades Post-vasectomy pain syndrome: diagnosis, management and treatment options Non-surgical management of recurrent urinary tract infections in women Scrotal reconstruction and testicular prosthetics http://tau.amegroups.com/article/view/ 13264/13810 http://tau.amegroups.com/article/view/ 15005/15152 http://tau.amegroups.com/article/view/ 15341/15697 http://tau.amegroups.com/article/view/ 15620/16236 Note: Data were collected from Google Analytics on Dec. 31st, 2017
9. Most Viewed Articles Published in 2017 Issue Title Link V6N1 V6N2 V6N3 V6N3 Erectile dysfunction, masculinity, and psychosocial outcomes: a review of the experiences of men after prostate cancer treatment Liquid biopsies for bladder cancer Standards for MRI reporting the evolution to PI-RADS v 2.0 Utility of trigger point injection as an adjunct to physical therapy in men with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome http://tau.amegroups.com/article/view/ 11527/13812 http://tau.amegroups.com/article/view/ 13921/14820 http://tau.amegroups.com/article/view/ 13533/15443 http://tau.amegroups.com/article/view/ 15168/15462 V6N1 Erectile dysfunction treatment and http://tau.amegroups.com/article/view/ traditional medicine can East and West 12802/13815 medicine coexist? Note: Data were collected from Google Analytics on Dec. 31st, 2017
10. Monthly Retrievals in PubMed in 2017 80000 70000 60000 50000 40000 30000 20000 Retrieval of TAU in PubMed increased rapidly. The total retrievals in 2017 is 616,949 times. 10000 0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Note: Data were collected from PubMed Central on Dec. 31st, 2017
11. Website Visits in 2017 25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 0 Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. The total pageviews of TAU in 2017 has reached to 199,740. All together 115,382 visitors. Readers who visited TAU website were from diverse countries, with the majority from USA, followed by UK, India, China and Canada. Note: Data were collected from Google Analytics on Dec. 31st, 2017
12. Focused Issues Published in 2017 Focused Issue(V6N1) Erectile Dysfunction Gerald Brock, MD, FRCSC Western University, Canada Eric Chung, MBBS, FRACS University of Queensland, Australia
Focused Issue(V6N2) Global Urology Gopal H. Badlani, MD Wake Forest School of Medicine, USA Santi Das, MD, FACS University of California, Davis, USA
Focused Issue(V6S1) Chronic Orchialgia Raymond A. Costabile, MD University of Virginia Health System, USA Ryan P. Smith, MD University of Virginia Health System, USA
Focused Issue(V6N3) MRI Imaging in Prostate Cancer Herbert Lepor, MD NYU Langone Medical Center, USA Samir S Taneja, MD NYU Langone Medical Center, USA Andrew B. Rosenkrantz, MD! NYU Langone Medical Center, USA! Marc A. Bjurlin, DO, MSc NYU Langone Medical Center, USA!
Focused Issue(V6S2) Functional Urology Helen E O Connell, MD, MMed, FRACS, FAICD Western Health, Melbourne, Australia Johan Gani, MBBS, FRACS Austin Health and Western Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Focused Issue(V6N4) Technique and Complications from the Masters in Andrologic Surgery Tobias S. Köhler, MD, MPH, FACS Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, USA
Focused Issue(V6S4) Sperm DNA Fragmentation Ashok Agarwal, PhD, HCLD! Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA! Ahmad Majzoub, MBChB, MD, CABU! Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar! Sandro Esteves, MD, MSc, PhD Referral Center for Male Reproduction, Campinas, Brazil! Chak-Lam Cho, FRCS (Urology) (Edin)! Kwong Wah Hospital, Hong Kong, China!
Focused Issue(V6N5) Management of Penile Cancer Philippe E. Spiess, MD, MS, FRCS(C) Moffitt Cancer Center, USA Michael A. Poch, MD Moffitt Cancer Center, USA
Focused Issue(V6S5) Penile Prosthesis and Penile Implants Jason R. Kovac, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCSC! Men s Health Center, Indianapolis, USA!
Focused Issue(V6N6) Bladder Cancer Michael Rink, MD, FEBU! University Medical Center Hamburg- Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany!
13. Upcoming Focused Issues in 2018 Focused Issue Male Genitourinary Reconstruction and Trauma Benjamin N. Breyer, MD! University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA! E. Charles Osterberg, MD! Univeristy of Texas Dell Medical School, Austin, USA!
Focused Issue Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer Marc A. Dall Era, MD University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, California, USA Benjamin J. Davies, MD University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA Scott Eggener, MD The University of Chicago Medicine, USA
Focused Issue Knowledge Gaps in Male Infertility James M. Hotaling, MD, MS, FECSM! University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT, USA! Ranjith Ramasamy, MD! University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA!
Focused Issue Prostate Cancer Screening and Active Surveillance in the Western World Monique J. Roobol, MD! Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Focused Issue Personalized Prostate Cancer Care Soroush Rais-Bahrami, MD! University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA! Jennifer B. Gordetsky,MD! University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA!
Focused Issue Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer Mark Buyyounouski, MD, MS! Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA!
14. International Meetings TAU Editorial staff attended the 2014 American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meetings in Orlando, USA.
14. International Meetings TAU Editorial staff attended the 2016 American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meetings in San Diego, USA.
14. International Meetings TAU has been cooperated with meetings, such as the Greatwall Translational Andro-Urology Forum (GTAUF), to publish meeting proceedings as supplement. So far, TAU has published 5 supplement issues working with such meetings. Over 800 copies of each supplement issue were distributed to attendees in the meeting as part of the meeting materials.
14. International Meetings Abstract Collection dedicated to The 1 st Annual Meeting of The Society for Pelvic Research 2016.
15. Introduction of the Journal s Publisher - AME! Our Publisher AME Publishing Company www.amegroups.com Registered in Hong Kong 40+ peer-reviewed journals 4 indexed in SCIE 18 indexed in PubMed/PMC/ MEDLINE 13 indexed in ESCI