Abstract:

      The 2011 JIPB Editorial Board Meeting, which coincided with the 2011 International Symposium on Integrative Plant Biology, was held at Lanzhou University, China, on August 26, 2011. Over thirty editors were in attendance for this extremely productive event (Figure 1). The symposium, jointly organized by JIPB, Lanzhou University and four Chinese societies involved in plant science research, the Chinese Society for Cell Biology, Botanical Society of China, Genetics Society of China, and Chinese Society for Plant Physiology, drew nearly 400 participants from all over China and abroad.
      The board meeting commenced with an overview of the current situation and future prospective of the Journal, given by the Editor in Chief, Prof. Chun-Ming Liu, followed by a very encouraging market analysis of JIPB's market status as seen from the publisher's perspective, provided by Jason Hu from Wiley-Blackwell.
      It is clear that JIPB continues its steady progress in many aspects. JIPB has been indexed by 66 international abstract & indexing databases including PubMed/MEDLINE, SCIE, SCOPUS CA, BA and BIOSIS. Our circulation continues to grow by leaps, where subscriptions went from 9,400 in 2009 to 11,800 in 2010 (Figure 2), and the Journal is available in over 8,000 libraries worldwide, a 25% increase compared to 2009. Last year there were over 109,000 full text downloads compared to 62,000 in 2009 (Figure 3, cited from The Publisher’s Annual Report 2010).