In Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of MRMS

Abstract

Congratulations to Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences (MRMS) on its 20th anniversary! As the third Editor-in-Chief, serving from 2008 to 2018, I am delighted to celebrate this momentous occasion. My first involvement with the Japanese Journal of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (in Japanese) was in 1986 when I published my first paper on Gd-relaxometry in rats. I still remember how happy and proud I was that my first paper had been published in a medical journal. Around the year 2006, a few years after MRMS was established, I became a member of the editorial board. Since then, I have been involved in constructing and improving the platform for peer review within the J-STAGE system: the first phase was the introduction of online submission in December 2009; the second phase was moving over to ScholarOne in October 2011; and the third phase began in 2015 when MRMS outsourced peer review management to Medical Tribune.