30th Volume and 35th Birthday Celebration from the former Editor-in-Chief (2007-2010) of the European Journal of Therapeutics!

Ayşe Balat

doi:10.58600/eurjther2068

Authors

Ayşe Balat Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkiye and Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Türkiye https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8904-1348

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58600/eurjther2068

Abstract

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to share this editorial not as the current Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Therapeutics (Eur J Ther), formerly Gaziantep Medical Journal (Gaziantep Med J), but as the former Editor-in-Chief between 2007 and 2010.

It is a great pleasure and pride to celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Eur J Ther.

In 2007, when I was appointed as the Dean of Gaziantep University Faculty of Medicine, unfortunately, the journal, the last issue of which was published in 2001, was in a five-year pause. In 1990, despite limited means, the journal had started its publication life [1], and it was a significant shortcoming not to be published. This scientific spark, launched in 1990, should not have been extinguished.

Among the several projects we carried out during my tenure as a Dean, the one that made me the happiest was the resumption of the journal's publication. A dedicated team worked wholeheartedly for this journal despite many impossibilities. And, at the end of a serious process of five years, the journal was reborn from its ashes like a phoenix in 2007!

At that time, many index applications of our journal, especially the ULAKBIM TR Index, were approved. Similarly, we increased the number of issues in a year from two to three during this period [2]. In 2010, I handed over the journal's editor-in-chief with great pleasure.

Perhaps what made me the happiest in my academic career was my period as Editor-in-Chief between 2007 and 2010 and the journal's progress. It is also a source of happiness and pride that I am now contributing again as Editor-in-Chief in the thirty-fifth year of the journal.

I would like to express my gratitude to all authors, editors, referees and technical staff who have contributed to the journal in this thirty-five-year period.

With the hope that there will be many more beautiful years to celebrate,

Yours sincerely,