A new era for the Journal of Endocrinology and Journal of Molecular Endocrinology

The Journal of Endocrinology (JOE) was founded seventy-three years ago as a vehicle for publishing research in the endocrine sciences. Over the ensuing years the journal proved a vital forum to report the major expansion in endocrinology over this period including a multitude of highly cited articles describing new assays, new hormones and new concepts in endocrinology. However, during the 1970s a technological explosion began with the development of recombinant DNA techniques and DNA sequencing, followed a decade later by invention of the PCR. Understanding of endocrine mechanisms was one of the earliest sectors to benefit from these new developments, and this prompted the founding of a new sister journal for JOE, the Journal of Molecular Endocrinology (JME). This journal development has been an outstanding success – a situation that continues to this day.

The molecular …