2017 – One Decade of Journal of Biophotonics (2017)

Dear readers of Journal of Biophotonics It is almost unbelievable how fast time flies, but in 2017 our Journal of Biophotonics is celebrating its 10th anniversary and Volume No. 10 will be released. Looking back to the last 9 years it is not exaggerating to say that our Journal of Biophotonics has been extremely successful. The success of a scientific journal can be best seen by considering the number of submissions and the impact factor. The numbers of both submitted and accepted manuscripts have doubled over the past three years. Furthermore, the number of active article downloads also shows a strong increase over the last years as the diagram in Figure 1 demonstrates. It can be seen that the online usage of Journal of Biophotonics articles increased in 2016 by about 65% as compared to 2015. Download trend. The impact factor over the last years has been rather stable and encouragingly high. 2016 we reached an Impact Factor of 3.818. These metrics nicely demonstrate the high scientific reputation Journal of Biophotonics earned over the past 9 years. Image Processing in Biomedical Diagnosis, Volume 9, Issue 5, edited by: Robert Koprowski, Thomas Bocklitz. Topical Problems in Biophotonics, Volume 9, Issue 8, edited by: Alex Vitkin, Mikhail Kirillin, Elena Zagaynova Photobiomodulation and Photodynamic Therapy, Volume 9, Issue 11–12, edited by: Michael Hamblin and Peter Berlien Wenbo Wang, Jianhua Zhao, Michael Short, Haishan Zeng, Real-time in vivo cancer diagnosis using raman spectroscopy, J. Biophotonics 2015, DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201400026 Natalie Andrews, Marie-Christine Ramel, Sunil Kumar, Yuriy Alexandrov, Douglas J. Kelly, Sean C. Warren, Louise Kerry, Nicola Lockwood, Antonina Frolov, Paul Frankel, Laurence Bugeon, James McGinty, Margaret J. Dallman, Paul M. W. French, Visualising apoptosis in live zebrafish using fluorescence lifetime imaging with optical projection tomography to map FRET biosensor activity in space and time, J. Biophotonics 2016, DOI 10.1002/jbio.201500258 Kwasi Kwakwa, Alexander Savell, Timothy Davies, Ian Munro, Simona Parrinello, Marco A. Purbhoo, Chris Dunsby, Mark A. A. Neil, Paul M.W. French, easySTORM: a robust, lower-cost approach to localisation and TIRF microscopy, J. Biophotonics 2016, DOI 10.1002/jbio.201500324 Martin Lehmann, Gregor Lichtner, Haider Klenz, Jan Schmoranzer, Novel organic dyes for multicolor localization-based super-resolution microscopy, J. Biophotonics 2016, DOI10.1002/jbio.201500119 Andreas Nabers, Julian Ollesch, Jonas Schartner, Carsten Kötting, Just Genius, Ute Haußmann, Hans Klafki, Jens Wiltfang, Klaus Gerwert, An infrared sensor analysing label-free the secondary structure of the Abeta peptide in presence of complex fluids, J. Biophotonics 2016, DOI 10.1002/jbio.201400145 Last but not least we are very happy to welcome Quinming Luo from the Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Hubei, China as a new Editorial Board member in 2016. We are extremely pleased and proud that Journal of Biophotonics has matured within the last 9 years into one of the most important Biophotonics publishing platforms which is widely respected by both technology developers and endusers (in particular, research clinicians) in this highly interdisciplinary research field. All this would have not been possible without the continuous support of all the authors from all over the globe and the many voluntary referees guaranteeing the high level of scientific quality. On behalf of the editorial board of Journal of Biophotonics I would like to express my sincere thanks to all of you. We hope to continue the very successful development of Journal of Biophotonics in 2017 and maintain or further strengthen its role as highly estimated scientific exchange forum in the interdisciplinary field of Biophotonics. We wish you all a successful year 2017 and we are looking forward to lots of more exciting submissions to our Journal of Biophotonics in 2017. Yours sincerely Prof. Dr. Jürgen Popp Editor-in-Chief