COLLABORATIVE BIOMEDICAL PUBLISHING

Endocrine Connections: A Case Study

Bioscientifica launched Endocrine Connections in 2012 on behalf of the Society for Endocrinology and the European Society of Endocrinology.

Endocrine Connections: A Case Study

Bioscientifica launched Endocrine Connections in 2012 on behalf of the Society for Endocrinology and the European Society of Endocrinology.

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Key Points

  • 2011
    • Bioscientifica brings together two societies to collaboratively achieve their aim of launching an open-access journal
  • 2012
    • JUN: Endocrine Connections launches
  • 2013
    • JAN: Reviews commissioning programme initiated
    • MAY: Indexed in PubMed
    • DEC: Downloads increase by 150% in the following 6 months[1]
  • 2014
    • JUN: Table of contents alert registrants hit 3,700
    • DEC: Time for first peer review response decreases to 23 days
  • 2015
    • DEC: Twitter followers hit 1000
  • 2016
    • JUN: Included in Web of Science’s Science Citation Index Expanded
    • DEC: Submissions more than doubled following indexing[2]
    • DEC: Downloads increase by 143%
  • 2017
    • JAN: All society members offered free publication as celebration of impact factor year
    • JUN: Number of published articles increases four-fold
    • JUN: First impact factor was an impressive 2.541
    • OCT: Twitter followers hit 2000
    • DEC: 56 articles published by members during the platinum open-access campaign
    • DEC: Submissions double since impact factor announcement[3]
  • 2017
    • Journal in net profit
  • 2018
    • Exciting new strategy in place targeting cutting-edge subject areas.

 

[1] Compared to the last 6 months of 2012
[2] First 6 months of 2016 compared to last 6 months
[3] First 6 months of 2017 compared to last 6 months