Vol 53, No 6 (2022)
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Running up the hill

Jan Styczyński1
Acta Haematol Pol 2022;53(6):361-362.

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EDITORIAL

Acta Haematologica Polonica 2022

Number 6, Volume 53, pages 361–362

DOI: 10.5603/AHP.2022.0052

ISSN 0001–5814

e-ISSN 2300–7117

Running up the hill

Jan Styczyński
Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Jurasz University Hospital 1, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Address for correspondence: Jan Styczyński, Department of Pediatric
Hematology and Oncology, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus
University in Toruń, Skłodowskiej-Curie 9, 85–094 Bydgoszcz, Poland,
phone +48 52 585 48 60, e-mail: jstyczynski@cm.umk.pl

Received: 23.10.2022 Accepted: 23.10.2022

Copyright © 2022

The Polish Society of Haematologists and Transfusiologists,
Insitute of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine.

All rights reserved.

The Polish Society of Hematology was founded by Professor Tadeusz Tempka in 1950. This was significantly earlier than the American Society of Hematology, which was founded in 1958. The Society was renamed the Polish Society of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine in 1975 [1].

The Institute of Hematology in Warsaw was created in 1951, and renamed the Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine in 1992. The Society and the Institute jointly founded the journal “Acta Haematologica Polonica” (AHP) in 1970.

Over the last three years, substantial changes have been introduced: all papers in the journal are now published in English. For the last two years, the journal has been published bimonthly, and the time from submission of articles to final publication has been shortened substantially [2, 3]. In 2021, Poland’s Ministry of Education and Science awarded our journal 100 points for parametrization [4], thus ranking AHP among the most prestigious Polish journals.

AHP is the most important and influential journal in the field of Polish hematology and transfusion medicine [1, 5]. The journal covers all aspects of hematology, as presented by Polish and international scientists. Many international and national co-operative groups have published in “Acta Haematologica Polonica” [6–8].

We are about to start on the 53rd year of the journal. To adopt the title of one of the most popular songs of 2022, we are ‘running up that hill’ of the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science) and PubMed Central. Such success is largely dependent on the number of citations in international journals of papers published in “Acta Haematologica Polonica” in the two most recent calendar years. This is the continuous call to the entire Society.

Authors’ contribution

JS — sole author.

Conflict of interest

Nothing to disclose.

Financial support

No financial support.

Ethics

The work described in this article has been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans; EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments; Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals.

References

  1. Giebel S, Basak G, Bieniaszewska M, et al. Current status and achievements of Polish haemato-oncology. Acta Haematol Pol. 2021; 52(1): 4–17, doi: 10.5603/ahp.2021.0003.
  2. Styczynski J. “Acta Haematologica Polonica”: on its new road. Acta Haematol Pol. 2021; 52(1): 1, doi: 10.5603/ahp.2021.0001.
  3. Styczyński J. Scientific life is changing: virtual and real-world experience. Acta Haematol Pol. 2021; 52(4): 215–216, doi: 10.5603/AHP.2021.0042.
  4. Styczyński J, Marjańska A. “Acta Haematologica Polonica” awarded 100 points by Ministry of Education and Science! Acta Haematol Pol. 2021; 52(6): 525–525, doi: 10.5603/ahp.2021.0102.
  5. Antoniewicz-Papis J, Brojer E, Fabijańska-Mitek J, et al. Current status and achievements of Polish transfusion medicine. Acta Haematol Pol. 2021; 52(3): 147–162, doi: 10.5603/ahp.2021.0031.
  6. Styczyński J, Tridello G, Gil L, et al. Prognostic impact of Epstein-Barr virus serostatus in patients with nonmalignant hematological disorders undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation: the study of Infectious Diseases Working Party of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Acta Haematol Pol. 2020; 51(2): 73–80, doi: 10.2478/ahp-2020-0015.
  7. Czyżewski K, Sedláček P, Štěrba J, et al. Progress and trends in pediatric hematopoietic cell transplantation in Central-East European countries. Acta Haematol Pol. 2020; 51(3): 142–150, doi: 10.2478/ahp-2020-0026.
  8. Styczyński J, Czyżewski K, Frączkiewicz J, et al. Clinical spectrum and outcome of invasive mucormycosis in children and adults: Polish experience of the decade 2010–2019. Acta Haematol Pol. 2020; 51(3): 157–163, doi: 10.2478/ahp-2020-0028.