Title: Journal of Biophotonics - successfully crossing scientific disciplines
Abstract: Dear readers, 2015 was another successful year for Journal of Biophotonics. Our impact factor increased again to reach a fantastic value of 4.447 for the impact factor year 2014. With this, Journal of Biophotonics is placed as the #12 journal both in the BIOPHYSICS category (with 73 journals) and in BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS category (with 79 journals). We would like to thank all authors, referees and readers who made this success possible. The Editors of Journal of Biophotonics very much appreciate your continuous and steady support. Volume 8 of Journal of Biophotonics contains 97 peer-reviewed research articles, reviews and letters with a total of 1000 pages in twelve issues. Among these issues there was one special issue in honor of the 70th birthday of Valery V. Tuchin, one of our esteemed editorial board members. We were pleased to welcome three new editorial board members: Laura Marcu (USA), Martin Frenz (Switzerland) and Dror Fixler (Israel) joined the editorial board in 2015. Image Processing in Biomedical Diagnosis (edited by Robert Koprowski, Thomas Bocklitz) Photodynamic Therapy/Low-Level Laser Therapy (edited by Michael Hamblin, Hans-Peter Berlien) Tissue Ablation and Laser Surgery (edited by Michael Schmidt, Florian Klämpfl, Stefan Nolte) Wenbo Wang, Jianhua Zhao, Michael Short and Haishan Zeng, Real-time in vivo cancer diagnosis using raman spectroscopy, J. Biophotonics 2015, vol. 8, p. 527, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201400026 Martin Lehmann, Gregor Lichtner, Haider Klenz and Jan Schmoranzer, Novel organic dyes for multicolor localization-based super-resolution microscopy, J. Biophotonics 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201500119 Pavel Matousek, Nicholas Stone, Recent advances in the development of Raman spectroscopy for deep non-invasive medical diagnosis, J. Biophotonics 2013, vol. 6, p. 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201200141 Richard Wombacher, Virginia W. Cornish, Chemical tags: Applications in live cell fluorescence imaging, J. Biophotonics 2011, vol. 4, p. 391, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201100018 Fabian Humpert, Idir Yahiatène, Martina Lummer, Markus Sauer and Thomas Huser, Quantifying molecular colocalization in live cell fluorescence microscopy, J. Biophotonics 2015, vol. 8, p. 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201300146 Xiaowei Guo, Surface plasmon resonance based biosensor technique: A review J. Biophotonics 2012, vol. 5, p. 483, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201200015 Pavel Matousek, Nicholas Stone, Recent advances in the development of Raman spectroscopy for deep non-invasive medical diagnosis J. Biophotonics 2013, vol. 6, p. 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201200141 Riccardo Cicchi, Nadine Vogler, Dimitrios Kapsokalyvas, Benjamin Dietzek, Jürgen Popp, Francesco Saverio Pavone, From molecular structure to tissue architecture: collagen organization probed by SHG microscopy J. Biophotonics 2013, vol. 6, p. 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201200092 Pierre Negri, Richard A. Dluhy, Ag nanorod based surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy applied to bioanalytical sensing J. Biophotonics 2013, vol. 6, p. 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201200131 Miguel A. Santiago-Cordoba, Murat Cetinkaya, Svetlana V. Boriskina, Frank Vollmer, Melik C. Demirel, Ultrasensitive detection of a protein by optical trapping in a photonic-plasmonic microcavity J. Biophotonics 2012, vol. 5, p. 629, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201200040 In 2015 the Journal of Biophotonics website was modernized, offering new functionalities. The vast majority of readership now happens online and most researchers turn to the online edition first. Consequently, the Journal of Biophotonics moved from a print and online journal to an online only journal. Since January 2015, the online content appears in a new full-text HTML format. The “Enhanced Article” provides an even more tailored experience, with improved navigation and linking. It offers a multitude of functionalities and fits any screen providing better access to our content especially for users of mobile devices. Wiley's partnership with ReadCube gives researchers the ability to integrate online papers into their own personal research space. Moreover, Wiley now provides information on Altmetric data: a collection of alternative metrics covering aspects of the impact of a work other than impact factor or h-index. Altmetric collects mentions of scholarly articles from all across the Web by gathering attention from newspapers, blogs, social media, and more. Further technical developments in 2015 include the installation of Editorial Manager – a new state-of-the-art online submission, reviewing and editorial handling system. The system provides much better, more flexible and reliable service to our authors and reviewers. Along with this, the online tool iThenticate was installed which automatically checks a submitted manuscript against published literature and other internet sources. This helps us to prevent plagiarism ensuring that Journal of Biophotonics offers new and valuable information for our readers. Please be invited to follow Journal of Biophotonics content via the journal homepage www.biophotonics-journal.org, the table of contents alerts and RSS feeds as well as indexing services. I am looking forward to another successful year 2016 of our Journal of Biophotonics with a lot more exciting contributions in the multidisciplinary field of biophotonics. We as editors wish all of you a very successful year 2016! Yours sincerely Prof. Dr. Jürgen Popp Editor-in-Chief