OMA BOT Book 4.24.2024

Obesity Pillars Items for Review OMA BOT Meeting 04/24/2024 Harold E. Bays MD, MFOMA, FTOS, FACC, FNLA, FASPC Editor-in-Chief, Obesity Pillars

• Accomplishments

o Obesity Pillars established in 2022 o PubMed indexing:

 Approved and indexed in November 2023  Accomplished in less than 2 years

 Part of NIH National Library of Medicine  Medline database is a subset of PubMed  DOI (digital object identifier) provides links to articles  PMID is a unique identifier used in the PubMed database and can be used to look up Abstracts and full free online articles  No cost to OMA o Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Approved in March 2024 o SCOPUS application completed in March 2024: abstract and indexing database with full-text links that is produced by the Elsevier Co. – Possibly approved later in 2024 o Working on Obesity Pillars Volume 10 o Clinical Practice Statements, Roundtables, reviews, short reports, position statements, and original science o Predictions o 100,000’s of article downloads o Virtual Special Issues  Pediatric & Obesity Virtual Special Issue  Cardiovascular Disease & Obesity Virtual Special Issue  Obesity and Diversity Special Collection  Ongoing: “Obesity Pillars Obesity and Asian Populations Virtual Special Issue” o Review time 22 days o Updated Associate Editors and Reviewers o Updated Guide for Authors with Graphical Abstracts o Monthly OMA member updates • Challenges o Clarivate Impact Factor--Possibly 2026  Reflects number of times Obesity Pillars articles are cited o Pharma submissions  Vivus  Epitomee  Rhythm

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