Board of Directors‘ Meeting – Report on Ultraschall in der Medizin/European Journal of Ultrasound (UiM/EJU)

The Ultraschall in der Medizin/European Journal of Ultrasound has been the official journal of EFSUMB since 2004. In 2009 an additional 2 national societies joined bulk subscription making it the official journal of 11 national ultrasound societies (the German, Swiss, Austrian, Norwegian, Danish, Latvian, Flemish, Macedonian, Croatian, Slovenian and Romanian). I would greatly recommend the remaining EFSUMB member countries to consider joining the bulk subscription. Issue 1 is distributed to all approximately 20,000 EFSUMB members. The remaining five issues are only sent to around 13,000 subscribers.

Ultraschall has five editors: Karlheinz Seitz, Eberhardt Merz, Kurt Jäger, Gerhard Mostbeck and myself. Each is responsible for specific topics within the journal.

The Impact Factor for 2008 showed small increase for the UiM/EJU – from 2.303 to 2.394. The journal is the highest-ranking interdisciplinary ultrasound journal. More than 50 percent of the published articles are in English and the rest all have an extended English abstract and captions in English.

The EFSUMB Newsletter can be found in each issue of the journal, for those who do not receive the journal the Newsletter is also available at the EFSUMB website at www.efsumb.org. The Newsletters of all subscribing societies in their own national language are also in each issue.

At EUROSON 2010 in Copenhagen Denmark Ultraschall in der Medizin will hold its own scientific session.