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President’s Message

Neil Hogg, Ph.D., Medical College of Wisconsin

With abstract submission open,

SFRBM 2015 in Boston is just on

the horizon. The plenary program is

now complete and is available on

the SFRBM website. We are trying

something a little different this year. It
Neil
has not escaped our attention that the

Sunday morning plenary session is not
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well-attended, and half the audience

that are present are sitting with their
Boston, MA - Site of SFRBM 2015
roller bags ready to make a speedy

exit. For this reason we decided to

4 citations and hour, so it got cited 4 more times as I struggled to formally end the meeting on Saturday

compose this message. This is a testament to the continued efforts night at the banquet and dispense with the Sunday morning session.

of Kelvin Davies (editor in Chief) and the Associate Editors. Redox
Instead we have expanded the Wednesday night offerings to four full
Biology is too new to get a formal impact factor but rumor has it that
talks. This will include the Discovery Award lecture, the winner of
when it does it will be very strong for a new open access journal. To
which will be inalized soon, and also a presentation marking the 25th
support our journals, SFRBM Council recently passed a motion to
anniversary of the discovery of isoprostanes. I look forward to your

provide complementary registration to editors and associate editors feedback on this change to see if we want to make it permanent.

of the journals to our annual meeting so they have access to all of the
One of the most important relationships SFRBM has is with Elsevier
latest science presented in our ield.
and our Society Journals, Free Radical Biology and Medicine (FRBM)

Both the Council and SFRBM Committees have been working hard
and Redox Biology. This relationship supports our activities in many
these past months with their respective portfolios and forwarding
ways and, most profoundly, through a sponsorship model that provides
our strategic plan. There are always opportunities for members to
signiicant income to the Society. Perhaps recent past-presidents (the

participate in our organizational structure and if you wish to get last 4 of whom have all been associate editors of FRBM) have felt a

involved, please let me know.
little conlicted; but as I have no such issue, I strongly urge all members

of SFRBM to support these Journals by making them destinations of
Have a pleasant summer and see you all in Boston.

choice for your best work. To be successful, all journals need top

quality content. Whether it be reviews or original research, we can

all do our part in supporting our journals by submitting manuscripts.

Whatever the limitations of Impact Factor as a metric, it is very

satisfying to see FRBM increase its impact to a very strong value of

5.74 with an incredible 33,000+ citations last year. I make that nearly

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