Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology (IJPM): About us

The Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology is the official Quarterly publication of the Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists. It had completed 50 glorious years in the year 2007. Late Dr Vanmali Saran Maglik of King George Medical College, Lucknow is the founder editor who started the journal in the year 1958. Initially the journal was called Indian Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology and the present name is in existence from the year 1965. The journal grew over the years under the able guidance of stalwarts like Late Dr HI Jhala, Late Dr V Ramalingaswamy, Dr HD Tandon, Late Dr BK Aikat and Late Dr S Nagalotimath. The present form is due to the untiring efforts of Dr KS Ratnakar, Dr VH Talib, Dr SK Shahi and Dr Harsh Mohan. The journal is widely read and is in almost all the libraries of the country and in many institutions outside the country. From the year 2008, the article submission, review, correspondence and publication process has been made online (www.journalonweb.com/ijpm). Now the journal has its own website (www.ijpmonline.org). With these changes the visibility and popularity of the journal has tremendously increased. Dr S Satyanarayana is the present editor of the journal.

Abstracting and Indexing information

The journal is indexed with Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases, CAB Abstracts, Caspur, DOAJ, EBSCO Publishing's Electronic Databases, Excerpta Medica / EMBASE, Expanded Academic ASAP, Genamics JournalSeek, Global Health, Google Scholar, Health & Wellness Research Center, Health Reference Center Academic, Hinari, Index Copernicus, Indian Science Abstracts, IndMed, Journal Citation Reports, MEDLINE/Index Medicus, OpenJGate, PrimoCentral, ProQuest, Science Citation Index Expanded, Scimago Journal Ranking, SCOLOAR, SCOPUS, SIIC databases, Summon by Serial Solutions, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, Ulrich's International Periodical Directory, Web of Science

Impact Factor^® for 2010 is 0.57

I have just taken over as Editor-in-chief of this prestigious journal, The Indian Journal of Pathologists and Microbiologists. Due to the process of transition, change over from conventional publication to online publication process and development of exclusive website of the journal, there has been a slight delay in bringing out the first issue of the volume 51. The future challenges are, to increase the visibility and readership, increase the proportion of original research publications, to make the articles available online ahead of print and to make the journal more popular. The database of reviewers has also increased in these two months. Now any one with vast experience in the field with publications to ones credit can inform the editor to do the review work by e-mail:

The website of the journal is www.ijpmonline.org where all the data of article submission, past issues of the journal in downloadable pdf format, contact information and feed back methods are available. The article submission is through the website: www.journalonweb.com/ijpm From the response and from the surveys by authors it seems it is going to be very popular. The ease of submission, tracking of the article, economy, conservation of scarce natural resource like paper and fast decision making are some of the interesting features of online submission.

For improving the credibility of the journal the quality of the articles should improve. Though there is resource crunch in many institutions to have modern technologies and ancillary diagnostic tests, there is vast clinical material available in the country. There is a need for national data on many disease entities. The journal can form a platform in this task. I appeal to all the workers in the field of research to send good quality articles to the journal.

OFFICE BEARERS OF INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF PATHOLOGISTS AND MICROBIOLOGISTS (2011)

A Nagendra
AK Dinda
B Nair
KB Logani
K Joshi
Grace de Costa
NA Jambhekar
N Jayaram
Anshu
A Bhaduri
S Kane
KP Aravindan
Lakshmi Gorthi
P Vaideeswar
SK Shankar
S Dattagupta
A Borges
Ashim Das
Tanuja Shet
Vijaya V Mysorekar
Narendra Krishnani
VS Nijhawan
Usha Kini
S Verghese

Antonio D'Antonio, Italy
Bhuvaneswari Krishnan, USA
Dilip K Das, Kuwait
H Mani, USA
KN Naresh, UK
Megha Joshi, USA
Rajal Shah, USA
Sharda Sabnis, USA
Sobodh M Lele, USA
SR Bhusnurmath, West Indies
Urmila Khettry, USA
Vijayalakshmi Padmanabhan, USA
Wayne Grayson, South Africa
Yogesh Dayal, USA
Z Gombos, USA
Roberto Dina, UK
Anand S lagoo, USA
Niraja Kambham,USA