We are delighted to announce that our Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Jose Carlos Fernandez-Checa, attended the 75th Annual Liver Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD TLM2024) from November 15 to 19, 2024 in San Diego, California and introduced our journal to the participants. The Liver Meeting is the largest and most authoritative liver disease conference in the world. Each year, more than 9,000 liver disease experts and professionals from around the globe attend the conference to share and discuss breakthrough research findings, new treatment guidelines, and the latest advancements in the field of hepatology.

Prof. Fernandez-Checa provided a detailed introduction of the aims and scope of the EDD journal to the esteemed experts by displaying EDD promotional leaflets. He also specifically highlighted the significant achievements of EDD over the past two years, such as its inclusion in DOAJ and Google Scholar, and the waiver of all author APC fees until July 31, 2027.

This promotion has brought EDD to the attention and recognition of more outstanding experts. We sincerely invite and encourage more people to promote EDD, and we will provide you with the necessary support.

We are pleased to announce that Exploration of Digestive Diseases is now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals. The official website of EDD on DOAJ is https://doaj.org/toc/2833-6321

Launched in 2022, this fully Open Access digestive diseases journal is committed to providing authors with free and professional publishing services and bringing high-quality and significant research/findings to researchers in this field, and continues to grow in scope and influence. Find out more about the journal: https://www.explorationpub.com/Journals/edd

Exploration of Digestive Diseases is listed in "Journals stating that they follow the ICMJE Recommendations" from October 4, 2022 (http://www.icmje.org/journals-following-the-icmje-recommendations/) and is recognized as a journal that follows the ICMJE's Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. From the first day of EDD, we always endorses and applies the standards and recommendations of the ICMJE, to ensure the rigorousness of review and publication process.