One year has passed since I started as the Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Human Genetics (JHG). I tried my best to maintain and to improve the scientific quality of published articles in JHG. Actually the 2013 journal impact factor is improving (2.526). Without the continuous and tremendous support by all the Associated Editors, Editorial Board members and reviewers, such wonderful success in JHG would never have been achieved. I really appreciate their great contribution. I believe that JHG will truly become the leading human genetics journal in the world.
Last year, we experienced a special event. Human Genome Variation (HGV), which is an online open access journal with accompanying database, was newly launched as a new sister journal of JHG. The Editor-in-Chief for HGV is Professor Katsushi Tokunaga who was the former Editor-in-Chief for JHG. One of the important missions of HGV is publishing human mutation data from all over the world together with the easily searchable database of such mutations. JHG and HGV have their own Associate Editors, but completely share the Editorial Board members. JHG seeks more scientific novelty and HGV accepts more mutations from different ethnic groups. Both journals enhance and promote human genetic researches under the guidance of the Japan Society of Human Genetics.
Finally, I would happily announce that 2015 is a special year for JHG: 60 years anniversary. We are now planning the special scientific sections in the next 12 months for celebrating the anniversary. We look forward to seeing exciting special sections and of course receiving wonderful manuscripts for JHG from all over the world.
Acknowledgements
The Editor-in-Chief, on behalf of the JHG Editorial Board and the Japan Society of Human Genetics, gratefully acknowledges the generous support from peer reviewers in carefully assessing manuscripts under consideration. The following individuals provided reviews of manuscripts submitted to the JHG in 2014:
Alessandro Achilli
Margaret Adam
Kiwamu Akagi
Tomoya O Akama
Isabel Alves
Ravindran Ankathil
Masashi Aoki
Masami Arai
Takahiro Arima
Takuro Arimura
Noritaka Ariyoshi
Koichiro Asano
Eric Austin
Noriyuki Azuma
Shabeesh Balan
David J Balding
Siddharth Banka
Chiara Barbieri
Timothy Barrett
Chiara Batini
Salma Ben Salem
Hathaichanoke Boonyarit
Protiti Bose
Chad A Bousman
Wojciech Branicki
Pedro Brites
Wesley Brook
David John Bunyan
Francesc Calafell
F David Carmona
Viktor Cerny
Pei-Chieng Cha
Nicolas Chassaing
Gyaneshwer Chaubey
Chalisa Louicharoen Cheepsunthorn
Feng Chen
Jen-hwa Chu
Valrie Cormier-Daire
Sonia Davila
Simon Edvardson
Thore Egeland
Phillip Endicott
Hideki Enokida
Yaniv Erlich
Muhammad Farooq
Rui Feng
David FitzPatrick
Florentia Fostira
Akihiro Fujimoto
Ken-ichi Fujita
Maki Fukami
Koya Fukunaga
Yoshimitsu Fukushima
Manabu Funayama
Hiroshi Furukawa
Tetsushi Furukawa
RIchard Gibbons
Santhosh Girirajan
Jun Gojobori
Antonio Gonzalez-Martfn
Jun Goto
Yu-ichi Goto
Minxin Guan
Renzo Guerrini
Leonor Gusmao
Hiromichi Hamada
Naoki Harada
Kanae Hasegawa
Tomonobu Hasegawa
Ryota Hashimoto
Ken-ichirou Hata
Shin Hayashi
Yukiko K Hayashi
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Reiko Horikawa
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Kikuko Hotta
Yoshihiro Hotta
Yue-Qing Hu
Zhibin Hu
Fen Huang
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Masashi Ikeda
Toshiro Ikeda
Yoshio Ikeda
Minako Imamura
Issei Imoto
Hidehito Inagaki
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Jun Inoue
Ken Inoue
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Matsumoto, N. A message for 2015. J Hum Genet 60, 109–111 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/jhg.2015.9
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