International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology: Excellence, accessibility, expansion, and evolution

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Two years ago, the International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology (IJPE) was launched to provide the first fully electronic, open access journal for the field in an era of evolution in media and global medical interaction. IJPE was launched with the incredible support of Hindawi Publishing Corporation and has quickly become a leading journal in our field. IJPE has rapidly evolved with the help of our readers and colleagues, to whom we are grateful for choose IJPE as a platform for presenting their work to the world. Since our birthday, we have had nearly 400 submissions and have published 100 reports. IJPE is now the official or affiliated journal of six major pediatric endocrinology societies that encompass more than 80% of the pediatric endocrinologists in the world. Having exceeded our initial goals, it is now time for IJPE to continue its evolution as the premier pediatric endocrine journal by joining forces with the Biomedical Central (BMC) family of journals. …