Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Collaboration Among Endocrinology Publications in Asia

2018; ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies; Volume: 33; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15605/jafes.033.01.01

2308-118X

Elizabeth Paz-Pacheco,

Healthcare Systems and Technology

For JAFES in 2010, or even before that, the overwhelming concern was how to make this journal a worthy partner among Asian and international journals.The arena was already teeming with international, regional, and country-specific journals on endocrinology.What did JAFES have to offer to the Southeast Asian endocrinologist?Early on, we understood the extra effort and attention to detail that would be required of JAFES if we wanted to succeed.We viewed our endeavors as a form of competition, not so much with other Endocrinology journals than with ourselves, and this guided the JAFES work over the last eight years.We were always on the lookout for best practices and innovations that can be particularly suited to our Southeast Asian contexts.We were learning by doing, how to adapt with technology to drive continual improvement, committing some mistakes in the process, and celebrating successes as they came.