German Medical Science--Journal for Medical Education: respectable and very much in motion.

The first issue of a new volume, which is the 32 of our Journal for Medical Education, is a good opportunity to take a look on what we have achieved during the last year, and what lies ahead of us as there are some innovations coming up that document the development of our journal. First of all some data: We published 35 articles in 2014. A good half of them (16) are research articles, almost a third are project reports (11), the remaining ones are reviews (1), position papers (3), and comments (4). These numbers illustrate that our journal lives up to its self-declared mission i.e. to promote the scientific discourse within the entire domain of education and professional development in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine as well as in the health professions overall. However, there is still room for improvement. From an editorial perspective we would wish to havemore review articles since we consider the integration of insights from individual studies of utmost importance as these become increasingly difficult to keep track of in many domains. That we are also on the right track for our readers is documented by the growing access of our sites: Both on our “home” platformGMS [http://www.egms.de/dynamic/ en/index.htm] and on PubMedwhere our articles are also available as full text we enjoy growing popularity (see Figure 1). In 2014 we counted almost 100.000 hits on GMS. On PubMed where our journal is listed only since 2011 we still had almost 50.000 hits. Both measures are corrected for automated queries. Although we are really excited about this response we still want to develop the proliferation of our journal without making any compromises in terms of the quality of our articles. To achieve this and to come closer to the Impact Factor as an important milestone for our journal, we introduce three innovations that we hope will generate positive impetus for this development: