TY - JOUR AU1 - Jiang, Jian‐Dong AB - After 5 years of accumulation, Animal Models and Experimental Medicine (AMEM) has received 396 manuscripts from 46 countries and regions, including Chinese mainland, Iran, the United States, India, Israel, Nigeria, Brazil, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, Japan, and Spain. It has become an important international exchange and display platform for innovative research results in the field of laboratory animal science and basic medicine. From 2018 to 2021, AMEM was indexed by CSCD, DOAJ, PubMed Central, WJCI, MEDLINE, ESCI, and other domestic and foreign scientific databases. In 2022, it was included in Elsevier's Scopus database, indicating the further improvement of AMEM's international influence. In the beginning of 2023, good news kept pouring in for AMEM. First, after the first year of inclusion in the Scopus database, the first CiteScore will be obtained this year. Second, in 2023, it will receive the first Impact Factor (JIF) moving another big step forward for it to become a world‐class journal.After changing to a bimonthly journal, AMEM has accelerated the construction of international frontier hotspots column. So far, seven hot topics that focus on themed issues of international basic medical research have been published, such as the study of intestinal microflora, cardiovascular and TI - Forge ahead and improve the core competitiveness of Animal Models and Experimental Medicine (AMEM) JF - Animal Models and Experimental Medicine DO - 10.1002/ame2.12307 DA - 2023-02-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/forge-ahead-and-improve-the-core-competitiveness-of-animal-models-and-upmKl0iKKh SP - 2 EP - 2 VL - 6 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -