Our first 70 years (70 years of the journal RAD CASA Medical Sciences)

RAD 548. Medical Sciences 56-57 (2021) : 12-14 www.rad-med.com 12 December 2021 Vol 548 = 56-57 Soon after the founding of our Academy in 1861 – initially under the name the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, and today the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the journal named RAD was launched in 1867. In the beginning, this publication included all the domains covered by the Academy. Subsequently, the journal began being published in several sub-series, each of which, including RAD CASA – Medical Sciences, was published within its separate Academy Department. The Academy Department of Medical Sciences was formed in 1950, and has operated autonomously since then. The first issue of RAD CASA – Medical Sciences was published in 1951, which was one year after the Department became autonomous. In the following 55 years, i.e. until 2006, 29 issues of RAD – or volumes, as we prefer to call them, had been published. This means one volume in two calendar years on average. In 2006, the following idea matured and was realised within the Department of Medical Sciences: the journal’s editorial signature should be revitalised. Thus, Marko Pećina, F.C.A., was elected editor-in-chief, whereas the editorial board chose mostly associate members of the Croatian Academy from diverse fields of the scientific area covered by the Department of Medical Sciences. In the Editorial to Volume 496, Issue 30/2006, the editor-inchief wrote as follows: We take pride in our journal RAD of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, which has so far reached 496 volumes. We are proud of this heritage of ours and of all its positive sides. We wish to continue our work, and to enrich the traditional values with the most valued and best confirmed tenets of our today’s cybernetic era. From the very beginning of the operation of the new editorial board of RAD CASA – Medical Sciences, since 2006, we have been aware of the secret of the journal’s success in the present high technology era. This secret lies in the fact that the journal ought to be published continually and in the English language, as well as be available in the electronic version (based on free or open access), and indexed in the principal bibliographic bases. Thus, RAD CASA – Medical Sciences has since 2007 been published in English, with summaries and keywords in Croatian, continually once or twice a year. Since 2019, four issues have been published per year in the form of double issues. In 2006, we joined hrcak.srce.hr, the web portal of the Croatian scientific journals. Every year, we are indexed in new bibliographic bases: Google Scholar, Biomedicina Croatica, EBSCO Publishing databases, Socolar Open Access, Croatian Web Archive, DOI, and the Digital Collection of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. We are currently lobbying to be included in SCOPUS and the Emerging Sources Citations Index – a part of the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. The webpage of our journal RAD CASA – Medical Sciences on hrcak makes us feel joy and satisfaction thanks to the fact that since 2006, we have recorded more than 400,000 visits, which on average amounts to around 16,000 visits per one issue, whereas approximately 50 % visitors have downloaded articles. Dear readers, I hope you have managed to deduce from our writing that our journal is celebrating the 70th anOUR FIRST 70 YEARS (70 YEARS OF THE JOURNAL RAD CASA – MEDICAL SCIENCES)