title: Importance of being indexed in important databases--effect on the quantity of published articles in JBUON.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the dynamics of indexing the Journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology (JBUON) in important biomedical databases, the effects on the quantity and type of published articles, and also the countries of the (co)authors of these papers.
  
  
  METHODS
  The process of the JBUON indexing started with EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, followed in 2006 (PUBMED/MEDLINE) and continued every second year in other important biomedical databases, until 2012 when JBUON became Open Access Journal (for even more information please visit www.jbuon.com). Including the next two years for monitoring the effect of the last indexing, we analyzed 9 volumes consisting of 36 issues that were published from January 2006 to December 2014, with regard to the number and category of articles, the contribution of authors from Balkan and non-Balkan countries, and the (co)authorship in the published articles.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the period 2006-2014, 1165 articles of different categories were published in J BUON. The indexing progress of JBUON immediately increased the submission rate, and enlarged the number of publications, original papers in particular, in every volume of JBUON. Authors from Balkan countries contributed in 80.7% of all articles. The average number of coauthors per original article grew slowly and was higher at the end of the investigated period than at the start (6.6 and 5.8, respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The progressing covering of JBUON in important biomedical databases and its visibility on international level attracted the attention of a large readership, and submission rate and the number of published articles grew significantly, particularly the number of original papers. This is the most important consequence of the editorial policy which will hopefully lead to even more progress of JBUON in the near future.
authors.affiliation: Academy of Medical Sciences of the Serbian Medical Society, Belgrade, Serbia; 2Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
authors.forename: Ljiljana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vuckovic-Dekic
authors.forename: Dusica
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gavrilovic
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D016208:Databases, Factual; D008495:Medical Oncology; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*