Elizabeth Paz-Pacheco
Going PubMed, Writing Together!
Going PubMed, Writing Together!

“If you want to go fast, walk alone; if you want to go far, walk together.” — African proverb After 12 years of advocating, inviting, writing, reviewing, and publishing high-quality endocrinology research for Southeast Asia, we are very pleased to announce that the Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies has been accepted for indexing in MEDLINE/PubMed, one of the highly regarded and widely used biomedical databases in the world. As the official journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies, JAFES has a unique role in promoting endocrine research and practice in the ASEAN region. With its inclusion in MEDLINE/PubMed, the journal is now poised to make an even greater contribution both regionally and globally. MEDLINE/PubMed is maintained by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM). It provides access to over 30 million citations from more than 5,600 biomedical journals that meet strict criteria for scientific rigor, technical standards, and editorial excellence, including some of the most prominent and respected publications in the field. With its inclusion in MEDLINE/PubMed, along with prior indexing in PubMed Central, Scopus, Web of Science (WoS), Western Pacific Region Index Medicus (WPRIM), and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), JAFES will now have even greater visibility and impact, reaching a wider audience of researchers and clinicians worldwide. The last 12 years have truly been seasons of grace and gratitude. We congratulate the authors, reviewers, editorial team, advisers, and the AFES societies on this remarkable achievement. We also extend our thanks to the MEDLINE/PubMed team for their careful evaluation and selection of JAFES. It is our hope that this new development will further inspire and motivate our community of endocrine experts in the Southeast Asian region to continue pushing the boundaries of knowledge and contributing to the advancement of endocrinology. The next set of goals of JAFES shall focus on sustainability, continued growth, futures thinking and foresight, and measuring the impact of the journal in the years to come. Elizabeth Paz-Pacheco Editor-in-Chief