Editorial

摘要

Thank you to the outgoing editorial team It is with great delight and a little trepidation that we write our first editorial for the Journal of Health Organisation and Management. We have watched as JHOM has developed from the early days of the Journal of Management in Medicine, edited by David Hunter, to the established journal that we inherit today. We would like to thank Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford, Hugh Lee and David Hunter for all their hard work and custodianship of the journal. JHOM has flourished under their editorial guidance and has transitioned from being a small, niche journal into a widely read, truly international journal, that attracts papers and readers from all over the world. As an illustration of the achievements achieved under the previous editorial teams downloads of articles per year have increased from around 30,000 in 2005 to nearly 100,000 in more recent years and JHOM is indexed or abstracted by key sources such as ASSIA, MELESfE and SCOPUS. I'm sure you'll agree with us that these are significant achievements. JHOM has also been added to some important ranking lists including; the Aston Business School list (where it is ranked as a 1), the Australian Business Dean's Council list (where it is ranked as a C) and the Australian Research Council list (where it is ranked as a C). The JHOM editorial and publishing team will be working to increase these journal rankings in the coming years. Once again, we wish the former editors all best wishes and are pleased that Dr Jackie Ford and Professor Nancy Harding have agreed to continue on the Editorial Advisory Board. We thank both for their continued support.