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Endocrinology and Metabolism’s application to become indexed in the MEDLINE database was submitted in February 2016. The journal received notice that it had not been selected in June 23, 2016. Table 1 presents the results of the Journal Review Summary by the United States National Medical Library Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC). In this editorial, I would like to analyze the summary, to propose a path toward addressing the areas for improvement, and to speculate on the prospects of the journal. Other comments from the committee were as follows: (1) Area(s) for improvement: Editorial board members are listed without credentials. There are signs of poor editorial work (e.g., a single author review which alternated between the singular pronouns “I” and “We” throughout the article). Lax ethics practice, e.g., a case report showed a barely disguised full facial photograph without an ethics statement (e.g., patient's consent). The journal has a relatively low unsolicited rate of 70%, with very high acceptance rate of 67%—this acceptance rate could be lowered. There is a lack of high-quality content (e.g., randomized controlled trials or systematic reviews). The journal could widen its regional scope. (2) Overall comments: This is a medical journal that promotes clinical and translational science in the area of endocrinology and metabolism. It is a regional journal (Korea). Some of the Korean authorship includes collaborations with Europe or the United States. Animal, ethical, and Institutional Review Board (IRB) statements are provided in the Methods section of articles. However, there is some inconsistency in the following of these ethical guidelines (written consent and IRB statements are lacking in a few articles). The website is very user-friendly and articles are available in several different formats. The committee gave the journal an overall rating of 3 on a Likert scale from 0 to 5, with 5 being the highest rating. The committee also noted that “The LSTRC assessment of journals is based on several critical elements that serve as a general guide for recommending a journal title to be indexed in Medline. There is no one element by itself that tends to disqualify a journal from being recommended. The overall appraisal of a journal’s scientific content, quality, importance, editorial policies, and subject coverage in Medline determine the LSTRC scoring and recommendation.” The comments that the LSTRC provided on the journal editing and publishing were meticulous and showed evidence of their close analysis. Incidentally, it should be noted that informed consent for the patient’s photograph mentioned in the comments was received during the article submission process; however, mention of the informed consent was omitted from the article. Also worth noting is that full text of the journal is available in PubReader, ePub, and PDF formats.

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