Looking forward and looking backward-Making impact with impact factor

摘要

The journey of my editorship started in January 2008, when the search committee headed by Dr. K. Raja Babu announced my name in the DERMACON at Chandigarh (my alma mater), for the post of Editor-Elect of the Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology (IJDVL), to work under Dr. Uday Khopkar, the then Editor-in-Chief, for one year. In the year 2009, I took over as Editor-in-Chief. My last 5 years were full of challenges as well as achievements and here I am penning down some of them, at the time of laying down my office. In the beginning of my editorship, I had to learn quite a bit from Dr. Uday Khopkar, regarding running of the journal, manuscript handling, planning of symposiums, supplements, and generate resources for the journal. At that time, the images had to be received in the Editor's office in a compact disc (CD) and creating an issue of journal was really tough.