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identity in and influence on its field [1], Healthcare Informatics Research (HIR), the official journal of the Korean Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI), forms the core of KOSMI’s academic activities on healthcare informatics. The transition from the Journal of KOSMI to HIR in 2010 has allowed an expansion of KOSMI’s vision through by its contribution to the field of global healthcare informatics. HIR has accomplished many milestones in the years since. It was indexed in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Catalog, PubMed Central (PMC), and Scopus [2]. In 2016, it was indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) [3]. Of course, as HIR has grown externally, its internal growth has also continued since 2010. This can be confirmed by the journal metrics provided by Scopus and ESCI. Scopus is the largest database of abstracts and citations of peer-reviewed literature [4]. Of all Scopus’s journal metrics, h-index and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) are the most widely used measures of journal quality. SJR is a citation index indicator that computes a value reflecting the topic, quality, and reputation of the journal by citing another specific journal [5]. In conclusion, citations from famous journals are very important, and each quotation yields other influencing factors [5]. As of 2016, HIR’s h-index was 14, and its SJR increased from 0.123 in 2011 to 0.588 in 2016 [6]. Scopus divides the indexed journals into quadrants according to the SJR of each journal, with the highest being in Q1 and the lowest in Q4. HIR is classified into three categories: Biomedical Engineering, Health Informatics, and Health Information Management in Scopus. In 2016, HIR was placed in Q2 for all three categories [6]. In addition, such as the total number of citations, citations per document, and ratio of international collaborations, are steadily increasing. Subsequent to HIR’s major efforts to gain inclusion in SCIE quite some time ago, a recent achievement was being indexed among another critical database, ESCI. As a new index among the Web of Science (WoS) databases, ESCI expands the citation universe and reflects the growing global body of science and scholarly activity. ESCI complements the highly selective indexes by providing earlier visibility for sources under evaluation as part of SCIE (Science Citation Index Expanded), SSCI (Social Sciences Citation Index), and AHCI’s (Arts & Humanities Citation Index) rigorous journal selection process. Inclusion in ESCI provides greater opportunities for exposure to the scientific community, which leads to measurable citations and more transparency [7]. Since HIR was included in ESCI in November 2015, it is now possible to calculate its 2-year impact factor (IF) in the Web of Science database. Although we are aware of various viewpoints and opinions in considering IFs, many would agree that the IF is still one of the most important indicators of the status of academic journals. The IF calculation for 2017 is performed using this method: cited items from 2015 to 2016 divided by citable publications from 2015 to 2016, and this has yielded an IF of 1.438. As described above, this grand achievement has been made Healthcare Informatics Research’s Journey of Paving the Road to Excellence in Global Healthcare Informatics