Introduce this very first issue of the Journal of Pediatric Urology.
Together with Elsevier and, as the president of the ESPU, I am honoured and delighted to introduce this very first issue of the Journal of Pediatric Urology. David Frank and Pierre Mouriquand have worked hard to create a journal for pediatric urology, a first in the European scientific publishing world. This journal will allow us to have our forum concentrating on pediatric urology topics. From this issue onward we hope you will see very high quality original scientific and critical review articles. We are also very pleased to inform you that your membership in our society includes a subscription to the Journal of Pediatric Urology, for full members, associate members, corresponding and senior members. This new journal will help to solidify our sense of community and identify us to other medical associations. As clinical or research pediatric urologists, we must support our journal by submitting our manuscripts. Even though the journal will not have a publication impact factor for the first 2 years, something that is an important consideration for those of us who work in an academic setting, if we publish good papers, the impact factor will rise, and with it a recognition of the validity and specific identity of our speciality. I would like to call on all of you to submit papers to our journal. Until now the official ESPU journal was the BJU International, and its editors and publishers have been magnificent over the years in their support of our society, and in giving us space to present our activities and publish our research and