10 years of EJNMMI Research: an overview

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Ten years ago, in 2011, the first articles were published in EJNMMI Research. When Ignasi Carrió, at the time Editor-in-Chief of EJNMMI, together with Ute Heilmann, Editorial Director Clinical Medicine, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, presented the project to launch a new European journal of nuclear medicine as a companion journal to the prestigious EJNMMI, the reaction of the EJNMMI Editorial Board was mixed. This even more that the new journal would be an open access journal. Many members of the Board feared that the need to pay article processing charges would prevent authors from submitting manuscripts; others were not sure about the respective roles of EJNMMI and EJNMMI Research and worried about potential overlaps. However, the response of the nuclear medicine scientific community to the new publication platform quickly overcame these concerns. Furthermore, the fact that most funding agencies currently ask scientific results to be made widely available and support open access contributed to the development of the journal. …