Reflections of the JEADV editor Scientific publishing in Europe

With increasing international connectivity and information exchange scientific publishing has become a central pillar of academic activity. On the basis of new research findings and clinical expertise the publishing of scientific manuscripts is a multifaceted procedure. With the experience of some years as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (JEADV) some principal problems of scientific publishing will be discussed from author’s view via the review process and editing up to ranking of journals. While the impact factor – the ratio of number of citations divided by number of published items in a certain time period - is regarded as gold standard, it should be kept in mind that journals are made for the target audience: this means in our case for practicing dermatologists and they should be attracted to read.