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The Hong Kong Journal of Ophthalmology is the official publication of the College of Ophthalmologists of Hong Kong, with ISSN 1027-8230. It had reached volume 23 in 2019 and in September 2022 moved to a continuous online publication mode. It is a fully open-access, peer-reviewed journal publishing ophthalmology research and case material for Hong Kong eye-care professionals, follows the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics, and licenses its articles under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 licence.
The College of Ophthalmologists of Hong Kong was incorporated in October 1994 with objectives that include promoting the advancement of knowledge in ophthalmology for public benefit, promoting the standard of ophthalmic care in Hong Kong, and acting as a consultative body on educational and public matters concerning ophthalmology. Its journal is the publishing arm of those objectives: the official publication through which the College's fellows and trainees, and the wider Hong Kong eye-care community, record and read peer-reviewed ophthalmic work.
College journals of this kind serve professional formation as well as research. The journal's own announcements encourage fellows and trainees of the College to submit, and its Best Original Article Award, supported by the Timothy Kai Ching Liu Memorial Fund, is structured deliberately to draw them in — one award open to all fellows and members of the College and another limited to trainees, each carrying a cash prize of two thousand Hong Kong dollars.
The journal's volume numbering had reached volume 23, number 1, in 2019, as the editorial published in that issue records, and an article record from 2022 shows volume 26 in progress, indicating continuous publication through that period. Its website had found a new home at hkjo.hk by 2019, and its editorial history includes the journal's effort to be found: an editorial of that period notes that the journal was indexed in Google Scholar, while candidly recording that it was not indexed in MEDLINE.
In September 2022 the journal announced a change of mode: it moved to continuous publication. Once approved, articles are published online to facilitate the rapid dissemination of ophthalmic knowledge, and articles subsequently assigned to a specific issue and printed are considered the final and complete version of record. The same announcement recorded that the journal had applied for indexing in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
The journal is fully open access. Its submission pages state that copyright of all articles is transferred to the journal on acceptance, and that articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Anyone may therefore read the journal's contents without charge, and share them under the licence's terms — a model that suits a professional college journal whose purpose is the dissemination of clinical knowledge to its community.
Open access also shapes the journal's audience. Although it is published for Hong Kong eye-care professionals in the first instance, its articles are readable by ophthalmologists, trainees and researchers anywhere, and its website statistics quoted in a 2019 editorial showed visitors from well beyond Hong Kong even in its earlier online period.
The journal's article categories are set out in its author guidance. Original Articles provide new information based on original research, including prospective studies with in-depth statistical analysis, unique retrospective observations of a disease or disorder, and studies of novel applications of an interventional procedure or treatment method. Around that core sit the standard categories of a clinical specialty journal — the research articles, clinical material and case-based contributions through which a specialty community shares practice.
The journal publishes across ophthalmology as Hong Kong practises it: the subspecialties of the eye hospital and university departments — cataract and lens, cornea, retina and vitreous, glaucoma, oculoplastics, paediatric ophthalmology and the rest — are all within the remit of a general college journal of ophthalmology, whose function is to cover its specialty whole for its professional community.
The journal's stated editorial framework is explicit and international. It adheres to the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, and to the Core Practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics. Submitted manuscripts must be original works not published elsewhere and not under consideration by another publication, and its authorship rules follow the ICMJE's four criteria, all of which an author must meet.
These commitments matter for a small professional journal: they assure authors, readers and indexers that its peer review and publication ethics operate to the same standards as those of the large international medical journals, and they are part of the record by which the journal presents itself for indexing and recognition.
Hong Kong's ophthalmology is practised through the Hospital Authority's ophthalmic services, centred on institutions such as the Hong Kong Eye Hospital, through university departments — notably the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences of The Chinese University of Hong Kong — and through private practice. The College is the professional body that trains and accredits its specialists, and the journal is where that community's collective clinical experience is written down.
Studies published in the journal illustrate the point: a population-based study of dry eye syndrome in Hong Kong, conducted by authors of the Hospital Authority's ophthalmic service at Hong Kong Eye Hospital and published in the journal in 2011, is exactly the kind of locally grounded clinical epidemiology a college journal exists to carry — evidence about Hong Kong patients, for the professionals who treat them.
The journal is identified by its title, its College publisher-community, its Hong Kong base and print ISSN 1027-8230, with the standard abbreviation Hong Kong J. Ophthalmol. Bibliometric aggregators record a small journal — a few hundred documents in total across its indexed history — which is the expected scale for a single-specialty college journal of a city-sized professional community, and should be read as such rather than against international ophthalmology titles.
What those records confirm, usefully, is continuity: a journal publishing under the same title and ISSN across decades of volumes, from at least volume 10 in 2006 through volume 23 in 2019 and volume 26 in 2022 in the records sampled for this profile.
The journal is published online at hkjo.hk, where its submissions system, author guidance, announcements and article archive are maintained, and its current continuous-publication articles appear there as they are approved. The website recorded for this profile is the journal's announcement page on that official site.
In this directory the Hong Kong Journal of Ophthalmology is recorded in Hong Kong, China, as the College of Ophthalmologists of Hong Kong's official, open-access journal, with its ISSN, its volume history, its September 2022 move to continuous publication and its editorial standards preserved.
Every mature medical specialty in a city like Hong Kong needs a journal of its own: a place where local clinical research, case experience and professional standards are recorded in permanent, citable form. The Hong Kong Journal of Ophthalmology is that journal for Hong Kong eye care — official, peer-reviewed, ethically governed and now openly accessible to any reader. It is included in this directory as a documented Hong Kong medical journal of record.
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