Editor's Choice

The first issue of Seminars in Liver Disease appeared in February 1981. The current issue completes our 30th year of publication. Over these 30 years, the Journal has published 120 regular quarterly issues and 5 supplements, containing ~1000 invited review articles in addition to the highly popular Diagnostic Problems in Hepatology series, which is Seminars' equivalent of a CPC. I was the founding Editor of Seminars, and have served continuously as Editor-in-Chief since the first issue, except for a period from 1990 to 1996 when Marcus Rothschild, a long-standing colleague and close friend, took on the task while I took a prolonged sabbatical to edit Hepatology.

Seminars, at 30 years of age, has a well-established place in the literature of hepatology. Its ISI Impact Factor has been stable at ~5 for several years, and was 5.171 in 2009, maintaining a ranking among the top 10 gastroenterology and hepatology journals that it has held almost from its beginnings. Seminars for some time ranked third, behind only Gastroenterology and Hepatology, but has gradually lost ground in the rankings as the impact factors of journals like Journal of Hepatology, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Endoscopy, and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy have increased. Nevertheless, its showing remains highly respectable for a journal that, almost unique among the top 10, is not the product of a specific Society, with automatic subscriber support from a very large membership list.

REFERENCES

• 1 Qu L, Lemon S M. Hepatitis A and hepatitis C viruses: divergent infection outcomes marked by similarities in induction and evasion of interferon responses.  Semin Liver Dis. 2010;  30(4) 319-332
• 2 Poenisch M, Bartenschlager R. New insights into structure and replication of the hepatitis C virus and clinical implications.  Semin Liver Dis. 2010;  30(4) 333-347
• 3 Seeff L B, Ghany M G. Management of untreated and nonresponder patients with chronic hepatitis C.  Semin Liver Dis. 2010;  30(4) 348-360
• 4 Wiegand J, van Bömmel F, Berg T. Management of chronic hepatitis B:status and challenges beyond treatment guidelines.  Semin Liver Dis. 2010;  30(4) 361-377
• 5 Sozio M S, Liangpunsakul S, Crabb D. The role of lipid metabolism in the pathogenesis of alcoholic and nonalcoholic hepatic steatosis.  Semin Liver Dis. 2010;  30(4) 378-390
• 6 Feldstein A E. Novel Insights into the pathophysiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.  Semin Liver Dis. 2010;  30(4) 391-401
• 7 Guicciardi M E, Gores G J. Apoptosis as a mechanism for liver disease progression.  Semin Liver Dis. 2010;  30(4) 402-410
• 8 Merion R M. Current status and future of liver transplantation.  Semin Liver Dis. 2010;  30(4) 411-421

1 These tables were assembled by manual review of masthead pages from the 125 regular and supplement issues published between 1981 and 2010. I apologize in advance for any inadvertent omissions.