After one year of publication of the Portuguese Journal of Dermatology and Venereology by the new publisher, Permanyer, the official Journal of the Portuguese Society of Dermatology and Venereology is on track to obtain the credits that will allow us to apply for indexation in PubMed/PubMed Central. We are already indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, Scielo, Google Scholar, and the Index das Revistas Médicas Portuguesas, but there is still a long way to go to PubMed.

We need the collaboration of all the Portuguese dermatologists, as this is our journal that we have to appreciate and feel as ours. It is open to and enriched by manuscripts from all over the world (we actually have been publishing manuscripts from many foreign countries), but we count on the national contributions of all of us.

Our Portuguese Dermatology, which is so rich, needs to have an expression in our own journal. We have so many young and “less young” colleagues that are so highly recognized in Portugal and abroad and are giving such an important contribution to dermatology, with their basic and clinical investigation, with international multicenter collaborations, publishing individually or within international groups in highly rated journals, that we hope they can really improve our Journal and help it go into the next step. There is still some lack of organization among all of us, but we foresee much more collaboration among the younger generation that will certainly enrich our dermatology and our journal.

We take this opportunity to thank all those who have collaborated with us, authors, reviewers, associate editors, and readers, but we need to involve you more, both with new original manuscripts and with the revisions that are essential to improve the quality of the published manuscripts.

Let’s begin this New Year aiming to reach our highest standards and achieve one of our main goals— indexation in PubMed!