JGH and me: A long and winding road-reflections of an outgoing Editor-in-Chief

摘要

Nearly 30 years ago, in 1984, I was approached by Mr Mark Robertson from the then Blackwell Publishing company and asked whether I saw a place for a new journal in gastroenterology and hepatology in the Asia-Pacific region. This was 3 years after HEPATOLOGY had been launched and its success seemed assured, and two other new specialist liver journals from Europe (JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY) and the International Association for Study of the Liver (LIVER-now LIVER INTERNATIONAL) had started recently. Although the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology had their own very successful journal, JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY, it was evident that many major advances in the Asia-Pacific region were published in specialty journals from North America or Europe. Further, those journals, though international in scope, provided less focus on specific health challenges faced by our own region. Hence, like many others, I gave the inauguration of JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY (JGH) my full support.