We have become an Open Access journal!

"It has been 4 years since Journal of Diabetes Investigation (JDI) was launched as a bimonthly journal in 2010, as the official journal of the Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes (AASD). Two years after the launch, the first Impact Factor was released with the evaluation of 1.861. Contributions come from all over the world, and in 2012 almost 300 papers per year as original articles have been submitted. The acceptance rate is approximately 30%. The development of JDI is slow – at a snail's pace – but steady and encouraging progress is being made ... Thus, based on this tendency in scientific publishing and the availability of research for authors and readers,JDI will convert to full Open Access from the first issue in 2014 (Vol. 5, Issue 1), hopefully resulting in much more exposure of either basic or clinical studies of diabetes in Asia to the rest of the world. This will reinforce the Aims and Scope of JDI in that ‘Translated research focused on the exchange of ideas between clinicians and researchers is welcome. Authors and readers from all countries are welcome’1. We hope our journal will continue to grow with Open Access, thus contributing to the development of diabetology and the improvement in quality of life for patients with diabetes."