March 2013 editorial: Operational Statistics for the APESM Journal (Jan 2012–Feb 2013)

Medical physics publishing in a changing research environment: the Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine 40th anniversary editorial

“…Past editorials [9][10][11] have highlighted changes to APESM production and distribution that have led to an increase in reach. Most obviously, partnering with a major international scientific publishing house (Springer International Publishing AG, Berlin, Germany) has resulted in dramatically increased subscription rates (electronic access to APESM articles is available via subscription packages at nearly 8000 libraries around the world), increased submission rates (Caon reported that submissions tripled between 2009 and 2010, the first year that the journal was published by Springer [10]), increased editorial discernment (the proportion of submissions rejected by APESM is currently increasing towards 70%), and increased numbers of citations (described above).…”

There are too many medical physics journals!

“…Ten more have established since then. It is clear that the number of medical physics journals, the frequency of their issues and the number of published medical physics articles has been increasing [2]. And that the rate of increase has been increasing.…”