JIDC Approaches Its Fifth Birthday

Editorial

JIDC approaches its fifth birthday

Salvatore Rubino, Editor-in-Chief, JIDC

J Infect Dev Ctries 2012; 6(1):1-3.

(Received and Accepted 10 January 2012)

Copyright © 2012 Rubino. This is an open-access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited

The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries countries, without whom our accomplishments would (JIDC) is approaching a significant milestone – the not have been possible. fifth anniversary of publishing our first issue in JIDC is based on the hard work of volunteers August 2007. Since posting that first issue online, who believe in the JIDC project and give their time to JIDC has grown continuously and realized several achieve JIDC’s goal of reducing the scientific gap important accomplishments. As a result of receiving experienced by developing countries. an enthusiastic reception from the scientific This is the right time to thank the editorial team community and the subsequent increase in including our senior editors, editors, associate editors submissions, we quickly moved from being a and members of editorial board. We greatly bimonthly to a monthly publication and were listed in appreciate the excellent work of our core team, several key databases including ISI Web of including chief technical editor and production Knowledge (Science Citation Index Expanded), coordinator Nikki Kelvin, webmaster and production Index Copernicus, Chemical Abstracts, CABI Global coordinator Marco Scano, page setter Joey Kelvin, Health, CAB Abstracts, Directory of Open Access creative director Jeff Coombs, and administrative Journals, CrossRef/DOI, HINARI (WHO), Ulrich's assistant Giustina Casu. Periodicals Directory, Google Scholar, NLM Catalog, Particular thanks go to our scientific editors IMBIOMED, BOAI, WAME, COPE, DIS- Nadia Ahmod, Eve Boakes, Mark Cameron, Cheryl UFSP(BR), GFMER(CH), IBT-CCG-UNAM(MX), Cameron, Antigoni Chaidaroglou, Marie Anne WMA(ES), WB-LUMC(NL), LC(FR), BVUB(BEL), Chattaway, Daniela Chessa, Amber Farooqui, Katy GU-L(US), L-YU(CA), HKUL(HK), RCL-UR (US), Harker, Jorg Heukelbach, Richard C. Huard, Adnan B-UNIFACS (BR), EBSCO . Then in August 2009, Khan, Patrick J. Kelly, Gemma C Langridge, Asghar we were thrilled to be accepted into the distinguished Nazeer, Alicia San José, Helena Seth-Smith, PubMed database. Chengming Wang, Aysegul Karahasan Yagci, and all Our next goal is to receive an impact factor, and the editors, reviewers, and board members who in a few months we will receive our impact factor answered our call for science editors in October. evaluation from Thompson Reuters. Looking at We are very grateful to our dedicated technical Google Scholar, we have about 1,150 citations with a editors, Dominique China, Mark David Dickson, constant monthly increase, so we are anticipating Emily Hiltz, Lisa M. Lambert, and Eva Molak. good news. We can only go up from here! We are Special thanks must be given as well to our eternally grateful to our readers who inspire us to senior editor, Aysegul Karahasan Yagci, who present the important research from developing prepared our current special issue on tuberculosis. countries. Everyone on our editorial team is committed to We are very proud of our publishing record. In our mentoring system, which is at the heart of JIDC, 2011 JIDC published a total of 155 papers including starting at the pre-submission level and carried reviews, regional reviews, outbreak reports, original through the entire publishing process. papers, case reports, technical notes, and letters We are also very proud of our successful blog, written by authors from many different developing which is new to JIDC this past year. Headed countries. We greatly appreciate the contributions of masterfully and with a great dedication by Alyson our authors (733) who hail from 358 institutions in 60 Kelvin, it is a place where professional experiences

Rubino.- JIDC acknowledgements J Infect Dev Ctries 2012; 6(1):1-3. and scientific ideas can be exchanged. JIDC also has Maria Appleman (United States), Liana Ariza a Facebook page, where you can get updates on our (Brazil), George Araj (Lebanon), Antonio Arbo editorial meetings and view our interesting gallery of (Paraguay), Carmen Ardanuy (Spain), Elisabete JIDC friends, and we are followed on Twitter. We Arrese (Spain), Ifedayo Adetifa (Gambia), Samar Al- also publish a monthly newsletter that is sent to Nahhas (Syria), Ibrahim Al-Traif (Saudi Arabia), subscribers. Jazzmin Arrivillaga (Venezuela), Myo Aung The financial burden of maintaining JIDC is (Thailand), Reham A. Aziz (Egypt), Sina Aziz shouldered by JIDC volunteers and grants and (Pakistan) Ahmed Al-Naaimi (Iran), Clement Azodo donations from foundations and organizations such as (Nigeria), Parisa Badiee (Iran), Ahmet Balik Fondazione Banco di Sardegna, Sardegna Ricerche, (Turkey), Frederick Baliraine (United States) , Kristin the University of Sassari, Shantou University Banek (Uganda), Bita Bakhshi (Iran), Stephen Baker Medical College, the Li Ka Shing Foundation, and (Vietnam), Mustafa Bakir (Turkey), Fukai Bao the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada. (China), Oussama Baraket (Tunisia), Ladaporn Our heartfelt gratitude goes out to these people and Bodhidatta (Thailand), Andreas Baumler (United organizations. States), Wafaa Bakr (Egypt), Matteo Biasotto (Italy), Finally, we are very grateful to all the reviewers Norma Binsztein (Argentina), Joseph Bliss (United who contribute their precious time helping with States), Eve Boakes (United Kingdom), Steven suggestions for revisions and ensuring that the Bosinger (United States), Giuseppe Botta (Italy), journal maintains high professional standards. While Zulkif Bozgeyik (Turkey), Maria Braoudaki our reviewers are from 65 countries from all over the (Greece), John Bremner (Australia), Rama Bhunia world, most of them are from developing countries. (India), Mathilde Boon (Netherlands), Franco We are fortunate to have reviewers from the Buonaguro (Italy), Cyrille Bisseye (Burkina Faso), following countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Jorge Cabral (Portugal), Adrian Canizalez-Roman Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, (Mexico), Jean-Philippe Chippaux (France), Andrea Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Carai (Italy), Nishat Chowdhury (Bangladesh), Lance France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Christiansen (United States), Phillip Collier (United Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kingdom), Mauro Colombo (Italy), Daniela Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Ceccarelli (Italy), Solmaz Celebi (Turkey), Changfa Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, (Clark) Cui (United States), Marie Chattaway (United New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Kingdom), Giancarlo Ceccarelli (Italy), Ricardo Panama, Paraguay, Perù, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Correa (Panama), Carlos Canelo-Aybar (Peru), Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saudi Arabia, Syria, South Nikoloz Chkhartishvili (Georgia), Rajesh Chudasama Africa, Spain, Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, (India), Celso Cunha (Portugal), Nihar Dash (United Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates), Terezinha da Silva Leitao (Brazil), Arab Emirates, Uruguay, United States, Venezuela, Monica da Silva-Nunes (Brazil), Barun Kumar De Vietnam, Zimbabwe. (United States), Monorama Deb (India), Debmita We would like to acknowledge and thank the Debdas (India), Bouke De Jong (Belgium), Mireya de following 257 experts who reviewed the papers la Garza (Mexico), Giovanni Delogu (Italy), Jacobus submitted for consideration in our 2011volume: de Waard (Venezuela), Elisa Deriu (United States), İlker Devrim (Turkey), Antonina Dolei (Italy), Lorena Abadia-Patino (Venezuela) , Ibrahim Abdel- Gerusa Dreyer (Brasil), Maria Drogari-Apiranthitou Messih (Italy), Yusuf Abdu Misau (Nigeria), (Greece), Milena Dropa (Brazil), Renu Dutta (India), Hikmate Abriouel (Spain), Ishag Adam (Sudan), Shanta Dutta (India), Mohamad Elsweify (Saudi Mohammad Aghasadeghi (Iran), Kabiru Akinyemi Arabia), Atef El-Gendy (Egypt), Sabry El-Naggar (Nigeria), Onoja Akpa (Nigeria), Bolajoko Aina (Egypt), Şevval Eren (Turkey), Abdul-Naser Elzouki (Nigeria), Raquel Almansa (Spain), Sitara Ajjampur (Libya), Teresa Estrada-Garcia (Mexico), Mônica (India), Carlos Alencar (Brazil), Abdulghani Facanha (Brazil), Heriberto Fernandez (Chile), Joseli Alsamarai (Iraq), Patricia Agaba (Nigeria), Saurabh Ferreira (Brazil), Parissa Farnia (Iran), Mel Figtree Agarwal (India), Deepak Aggarwal (United States), (Australia), Joseph Forbi (Nigeria), Lucia Galli Jaffar Al-Tawfiq (Saudi Arabia), Carlos Amabile- (Italy), R. Glenn Gaston (United States), Gerardo Cuevas (Mexico), Malaka Amer (Saudi Arabia), González-Rocha (Chile), P. Grabarczyk (Poland), Ben Amos (Tanzania), Vicente Antonello (Brazil), Javier Garaizar (Spain), Marina Giuliano (Italy),

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Deniz Gur Akman (Turkey), Tayyaba Ijaz (Pakistan), (United States), Aggeliki Poulou (Greece), Farhad Noyal Joseph (India), Yadav Prasad Joshi (Nepal), Pourfarzi (Iran), Audino Podda (Italy), Mayoor Wafa Habbal (Sirya), Xiang Han (United Stetes), Prabhu (India), Pradyot Prakash (India), Zhikang Azian Harun (Malaysia) , Abdul Haque (Pakistan), Qian (United States), Manuela Raffatellu (United Zahra Hasan (Pakistan), Mary Hoelscher (United States), Md Siddiqur Rahman (Bangladesh), Paola States), Richard C. Huard (United States), Entesar Rappelli (Italy), Ayalu Reda (Ethiopia), Ana Carolina Husain (Kuwait), Murat Kapan (Turkey), Ismail Ritter (Brazil), Octavio Rivero (Spain), Alesia Kapicioglu (Turkey), Oguz Karabay (Turkey), Salim Romanovkaya (Russia),Jane Rose (Saint Kitts and Abdool Karim (South Africa), Supaletchimi Nevis), Joaquim Ruiz (Spain), Suleiman Saidi Katherason (Malaysia), Rumeyza Kazancıoğlun (Kenya), Eisa Salehi (Iran), Sandeep Saluja (India), (Turkey), Adnan Khan (Pakistan), Karen Keddy Vittorio Sambri (Italy), Amy Sapkota (United States), (South Africa), Abdullah Kilic (Turkey), Paul Sanda Sardelic (Croatia), Shiv Sarin (India), Murat Klatser (Netherlands), Diamantis Kofteridis (Greece), Sayan (Turkey), Dianella Savoia (Italy), Karin Michael Koster (United States), Anil Kumar (India), Schwaiger (Germany), M Elena Seoane (Spain), J. Labbe (New Caledonia), Lincoln Lau (Hong Burcin Sener (Turkey), Asa Sjoling (Sweden), Kong), Sisinnio Leori (Italy), Benedikt Ley (Austria), Abubaker Sidahmed (Canada), Nidhi Singla (India), Ming-Li Liou (Taiwan), Jean Limongi (Brazil), Herman Sprenger (Netherlands), Ajanta Sharma Amanda Loftis (Saint Kitts and Nevis), Zhigang Liu (India), Seyed Davar Siadat (Iran), Addmore Shonhai (United States), Chun-Yi Lu (Taiwain), Eric Macy (South Africa), Kirill Sharshov (Russia), VN Sehgal (United States), Emin Maden (Turkey), Evelyn (India), Michael Seckeler (United States), Pierre Madoroba (South Africa), Stanley Maloy (United Smeesters (Belgium), Malini Shariff (India), Wei Sun States), Daniel Marcano (Venezuela), Margarita (United States), Olusegun Soge (United States), Martinez-Medina (Spain), Humphrey Mazigo Bahman Tabaraie (Iran), Irene Tami (United States), (Tanzania), Jacobe Mathew (India), Mark Melzer Reda Tagajdid (Morocco), Narhari Timilshina (United Kingdom), Juliane Meng-Hentschel (Canada), Mohammed Timinouni (Morocco), (Germany), Vitaliano Muzii (Italy), Lucky Moehario Eduardo Tondo (Brazil), Hasan Ucmak (Turkey), (Indonesia), Denise Patricia Mawili-Mboumba Uade Ugbomoiko (Nigeria), Kingsley Ukwaja (Gabon), Leigh Miller (Thailand), Santosh Mondal (Nigeria), Maria Leide Wand-del-Rey Oliveira (India), David Murdoch (New Zealand), Reggie (Brazil ), Tjip van der Werf (Netherlands), A Veloo Mutetwa (Zimbabwe), Nutan Mytle (USA), Joseph (Netherlands), Tommie Victor (South Africa), Mwanzia Nguta (Kenya), Gholamreza Nikbakht Roberto Vidal (Chile), Ha Vinh (Vietnam), Brujeni (Iran), Vishal Nigam (India), Carla Novais Jugsharan Virdi (India), Simonetta Viviani (France), (Portugal), Samuel Ola (Nigeria), Obeid Obeid Georgia Vrioni (Greece), Richard Vincent (Saudi Arabia), A. B. Olokoba (Nigeria), Bianca (Madagascar), Francois-Xavier Weill (France), Paglietti (Italy), Tibor Pal (United Arab Emirates), Hannah Wexlecheck (United States), Heather Dimple Panwar (India), Georgios Pappas (Greece), Williamson (United States), Paul-Louis Woerther Violeta Pardío (Mexico), Luis Pianciola (Argentina), (France), Asnakew Yeshiwondim (United States), Ariel Pereda (Argentina), Alicia Perez (France), Raffaele Zarrilli (Italy), Dominik Zenner (United Celeste Pérez (Argentina), Cristian Perez (Costa Kingdom), Roberto Zenteno (Mexico), Abdulaziz Rica), Mrudula Phadke (India), Guillermo Pimentel Zorgani (Libya), Pablo Zunino (Uruguay).