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"The Journal of Investigative Dermatology" had another successful year in 1990, as exemplified by growing submission and publication of a large and varied journal of high-quality papers. A new category, the "High impact" paper, has been introduced in order to identify particular important papers early in the review process and hasten those papers to publication. the time for submission to decision on these papers is under one month, if authors complete revisions rapidly, these papers can be published in four months from submission.

This article provides a report about the achievements of the "journal of Investigative Dermatology," in 1989. Rapid communications continue to provide a means for facilitated publication of concise, definitive, and important new findings, but they still remain a minor component of the published manuscripts. The number of submitted papers over the past three years has stabilized at around 500, and the journal has published more editorial pages of original research papers in 1989 than ever before.

The Mohammed Amer Award Committee proudly announces that papers are now being considered for the Mohammed Amer Award. The winning paper will he presented at The 7th Biennial Zagazig Dermatology Meeting, Cairo, Egypt, February 6- 10, 1992. The papers will be accepted from residents in training, or those completing their training in July, 1991. It will include topics of clinical and basic research.

The article presents abstracts of several papers including one on autoimmune rheumatic disease scleroderma and cancer, another on wholegenome sequencing (WGS), and Netherton syndrome (NS).

The article presents information about the acknowledgement to be added to the paper "Production of paf-acether by human epidermal cells," which appeared in the November 1990 issue of the journal "Journal of Investigative Dermatology."

The article informs that the 1980 Annual Meeting of the European Society for Dermatological Research (ESDR) will he held in the RAI Congrescentrurn, Amsterdam, on May 12-14, 1980. Attendance at scientific sessions will be open to all members, contributors and guests. It further says that non-members who wish to present a paper may submit an abstracts and that they will he invited to attend the meeting as either contributors or guests.