The Iranian Journal of Radiation Research (IJRR) is now in the eighth year of
publication. This journal is the mouth piece of shared idea of Dr Shahram Akhlaghpoor and
me, which was established way back in 2002. At that time the main emphasis of the founder
members was to make the subject of radiation research attractive and interesting especially
for combating cancer and risk assessment. The dream for creating the Journal has come true
by the help of Dr Seyed Mahmood Aghamiri who obtained the necessary permission for its
publication and the Novin Medical Radiation Institute for financial and logistic supports.
Our mission has been to serve the needs of scientists and community by working with
capable researchers and professionals from across the world to produce the most accurate
and up to date scientific and technical resources. From summer 2003 when the first issue of
IJRR was published, IJRR was devoted to the rapid publication of fundamental research
papers on all aspects of Radiation Research. All contributions were rigorously refereed and
selected on the basis of quality and originality of the work as well as the breadth of interest
to readers. Although for understanding reasons the authors were reluctant to publish their
articles in the journal. From publication of the first issue, I, as the editor-in-chief with the
help of all my colleagues, have tried to improve the quality and responsibility of the journal
and its articles over the past years. Through this continued efforts we could index the
journal with a host of indexing agencies and we are expecting to get higher impact factor for
journal in a near future. Thus IJRR has now gained an international reputation and a
strong emphasis on high academic standards. In addition to authors from Iran who
contributed to IJRR, I should thank all the authors across the globe that helped us by
submitting articles to this journal. I would like to thank to our editorial board for their help
and suggestions, all reviewers for their sincere help and careful review of the articles and my
colleagues at the editorial and publishing office. Also I express my special thanks and
gratitude's to Dr Shahram Akhlaghpoor and his honorable colleagues at the Novin Medical
Radiation Institute for their continued logistic and financial support to keep the journal
alive and to Miranda Firouzbakhsh and Sohail Mozdarani for their tired less efforts at the
editorial office to manage the articles from the first day of receipt until publication.
Seven years is not a long time to assess a journal's worth. However, 7 years is also
ample time when we should have been able to promote the journal to a greater height. Thus
let us not to miss this opportunity now. The Iranian Journal of Radiation Research is now
indexed in ISI, Scopus, Index Copernicus, EM base and etc, therefore, there should be no
hesitation for researchers to put their valuable works in the journal and work for the journal
to become more visible internationally. Young scientists are requested to contribute by submitting interesting observations, raising controversies and publish constructive
criticisms on published articles as well as submitting original articles in the cutting edge
areas of the radiation science.
I request all the scientists and researchers in the field of radiation science to visit the
journal website at www.ijrr.com. Apart from free access to abstracts and full text articles in
PDF format, each article has its individual statistics of utility. You can see how often the
website has been visited, how often articles in the journal have been visited and how often
the PDF article has been downloaded. The impact factor and citations are two important
indices for any journal and an individual article's utility. IJRR has now published enough
papers in different fields of radiation research to be cited by authors in their forthcoming
articles. However, I hope in the future, the number of times an article has been visited or
PDF downloaded will also be used to understand the interest in a particular article by
readers who do not publish articles. Visit and download of some articles published in IJRR is
incredible. There are papers visited nearly 4000 times and downloaded more than 1300
times. These statistics and being indexed by main indexing agencies indicate the level of
articles published in IJRR and its scientific importance in the short life of this journal. I am
sure with all your help this journal will be able to immortalize itself.
Mozdarani H. Seven years publication of “Iranian Journal of Radiation Research” with confident but cautious steps (Editor's Commentary). Int J Radiat Res 2010; 8 (1) :1-2 URL: http://ijrr.com/article-1-602-en.html