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Proceedings of the editorial board meeting of the American journal of cardiology on 19 March 2001

2001; Elsevier BV; Volume: 87; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0002-9149(01)01625-3

1879-1913

William C. Roberts,

Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes

The 2001 meeting of the Editorial Board of The American Journal of Cardiology (AJC) was held on 19 March at the time of the Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology. The meeting’s purpose was to review AJC publication results for 2000, to recognize particularly those AJC board members reviewing the most manuscripts in 2000, and to receive criticisms and suggestions from board members on how to improve the journal. The meeting went as follows: 1.Introduction of Mr. Joshua R. Spieler, the Associate Publisher at Elsevier Science, Inc., New York, which includes the AJC: Mr. Spieler welcomed the board members, and thanked them for their help, and introduced his staff. 2.Introduction of new AJC board members beginning in 2000: These were Eugene H. Blackstone, Dean J. Kereiakes, Carl J. Lavie, Richard L. Page, and Miguel Zabalgoitia. 3.AJC board members reviewing the most manuscripts in 2000 (Table 1): The top AJC reviewer in 2000 was Dr. Harold L. Kennedy who reviewed 8 manuscripts and returned each one of them during the allotted 3-week period. TABLE 1American Journal of Cardiology Editorial Board Top Reviewers for 2000 Board Member Number of Manuscripts Reviewed Harold L. Kennedy 8 Raymond G. McKay 7 Jonathan Abrams 7 Eric Bates 7 Rodney H. Falk 7 Jack Ferlinz 7 Sanjiv Kaul 7 Carl J. Lavie 7 Joseph A. Franciosa 7 Stephen P. Glasser 7 Frank I. Marcus 7 Robert A. O’Rourke 7 James L. Ritchie 7 Jonathan M. Tobis 7 Eric J. Topol 7 Ezra Amsterdam 6 Jeffrey Anderson 6 Harisios Boudoulas 6 Jeffrey A. Brinker 6 Bernard R. Chaitman 6 Marc Cohen 6 Gerald Dorros 6 Myrvin Ellestad 6 Stephen Ellis 6 Ted Feldman 6 Robert E. Goldstein 6 John Kostis 6 Erik Magnus Ohman 6 Hector O. Ventura 6 Robert Vogel 6 Open table in a new tab 4.Numbers of manuscripts submitted and published and numbers of editorial pages published in the AJC 1983–2000 (Table 2): A total of 2,226 manuscripts were received in the editorial office in 2000. (This number does not include the manuscripts for the supplement issues). This is the largest number ever received in a single year by the AJC and represents a 3% increase over 1999. Of the 2,226 manuscripts received, 630 (28%) were either published or accepted for publication and 1,596 (72%) were declined. Of the 2,226 manuscripts received in 2000, 1,078 were from the USA and 329 (33%) of them were accepted; a total of 1,148 manuscripts were submitted from non-USA countries and 271 (24%) of them accepted for publication. Some of the 630 accepted manuscripts of those submitted in 2000 of course will not be published until 2001. The only reason the acceptance rate (presently 28%) is as high as it is, is because of the large number of brief reports published. Over 80% of manuscripts published as brief reports had originally been submitted as long reports. TABLE 2Numbers of Manuscripts Submitted and Published and Numbers of Editorial Pages Published in the AJC 1983–2000 (During the Tenure of WCR) Year Number of Manuscripts Submitted Number of Manuscripts Published or Accepted Percent Accepted Number of Editorial Pages for Articles Average Pages Per Article 2000 2,226 630 28% 2,926 4.64 1999 2,170 703 32% 2,745 3.90 1998 1,992 631 31% 2,598 4.11 1997 1,898 768 40% 3,328 4.03 1996 1,930 701 36% 2,775 3.96 1995 1,844 668 36% 2,570 3.85 1994 1,783 604 34% 2,493 4.13 1993 1,997 619 31% 2,890 4.45 1992 1,873 664 35% 3,211 4.51 1991 1,615 680 42% 3,165 4.65 1990 1,717 662 38% 3,001 4.53 1989 1,740 699 40% 2,903 4.15 1988 1,496 636 42% 2,642 4.15 1987 1,525 695 46% 2,810 4.04 1986 1,574 616 39% 2,627 4.26 1985 1,707 645 38% 2,623 4.07 1984 1,605 747 46% 3,077 4.12 1983 1,234 643 52% 3,130 4.87 Open table in a new tab 5.Numbers of pages, articles, and types of articles published in the regular issues of the AJC in 2000 (Table 3): A total of 648 articles were published on 2,926 pages in 2000. An additional 38 pages were used to publish 37 Readers’ Comments (letters to the editor). Of the 648 articles published, 343 (51%) were long reports, 287 (42%) were brief reports, 8 (1%) were case reports, 22 (3%) were editorials, and 6 were interviews of prominent cardiovascular specialists. The unique feature of the AJC is the brief report section. Some of the articles published in 2000 of course had been submitted in 1999. TABLE 3Number of Editorial Pages and Numbers and Types of Articles Published in The American Journal of Cardiology in 2000 (Volumes 85 + 86) Number of editorial pages—total 3,292 (100%) For articles 2,926 (89%) For Readers’ Comments (number) [replies] 38 (37) [4] (1%) For staff & editorial board 48 (1%) For contents with abstracts 116 (4%) For Instructions to Authors 46 (1%) For Interactive Grand Rounds 14 (<1%) For volume indexes 104 (3%) Number of articles—total 648 (100%) For Long reports 343 (51%) Coronary artery disease 170 Preventive cardiology 19 Arrhythmia & conduction disturbances 30 Systemic hypertension 7 Congestive heart failure 26 Valvular heart disease 21 Cardiomyopathy 12 Congenital heart disease 25 Miscellaneous 14 Methods 15 Cardiovascular pharmacology 3 Historical studies 1 For Brief Reports 287 (42%) For Case Reports 8 (1%) For Interviews 6 (1%) For Editorials 20 (3%) For From-the-Editor column 2 (<1%) For Interactive Grand Rounds 12 (2%) Open table in a new tab 6.Interviews published in the AJC:Table 4 summarizes the interviews published in the AJC through year 2000. A number also are planned for 2001. TABLE 4Interviews Published in the AJC Eric Jeffrey Topol July 1, 1996 W. Bruce Fye August 1, 1996 James Thornton Willerson February 15, 1997 Michael Ellis DeBakey April 1, 1997 Denton Arthur Cooley April 15, 1997 Joseph Stephan Alpert May 1, 1997 Jesse Efrem Edwards April 1, 1998 John Webster Kirklin April 15, 1998 Howard Bertram Burchell May 15, 1998 William Howard Frishman June 1, 1998 Robert Ogdon Bonow June 15, 1998 Eugene Braunwald July 1, 1998 Joseph Cholmondeley Greenfield July 15, 1998 David Coston Sabiston, Jr. August 1, 1998 Norman Mayer Kaplan August 15, 1998 Robert McKinnon Califf September 1, 1998 Bernard John Gersh November 1, 1998 Dean James Kereiakes November 15, 1998 Jeffrey Michael Isner January 1, 1999 Scott Montgomery Grundy January 15, 1999 Burton Elias Sobel February 1, 1999 Robert Anthony O’Rourke April 1, 1999 David Kempton Cartwright Cooper April 15, 1999 Spencer Bidwell King III May 1, 1999 Robert Roberts May 15, 1999 Eugene Auston Stead, Jr September 15, 1999 Bertram Pitt October 1, 1999 Christopher John Dillon Packard November 15, 1999 Terje Rolf Pedersen November 15, 1999 Francis Robicsek June 1, 2000 Richard John Bing July 1, 2000 Valentin Fuster July 15, 2000 Henry Arthur Solomon July 15, 2000 Harvey Stanley Hecht November 1, 2000 Myrvin Harold Ellestad December 1, 2000 Open table in a new tab 7.Symposia published in the AJC in 2000 (Table 5): A total of 13 supplements including 132 articles and 888 pages were published in 2000. No advertisements, of course, appear in the supplement issues, which are published under separate cover with a different color from that of the regular issues. The guest editors of these symposia are for the most part major leaders in cardiovascular disease around the world. TABLE 5Symposia in The American Journal of Cardiology in 2000 Date of Publication Subject of Symposium Guest Editor(s) Sponsor of Symposium Article Pages Interval (mo) Symposium and Publications A February 10 Improving lipid management Christie M. Ballantyne Merck 9 56 4 B March 9 Acute coronary syndromes Richard R. Miller Genentech 9 64 4 C April 27 Acute coronary syndromes Howard C. Herrmann Centocor 8 51 — D May 25 Atrial fibrillation Eric N. Prystowsky Berlex 7 52 6 E June 22 Sidney C. Smith, Jr. Johnson & Johnson Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals 5 23 7 F July 20 Sexual activity and cardiac risk John B. Kostis Harin Padma-Nathan Raymond C. Rosen Bayer AG, Genupro, Lilly-ICOS, Merck, Pfizer, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Schering-Plough, TAP, and Zonagen 16 68 13 G August 17 Echocardiography Armando Dagianti Merck Sharpe & Dohme Halia S.p.a. 17 60 18 H August 24 Management after percutaneous coronary intervention Andrew P. Selwyn Pfizer 6 32 — I October 16 Transcatheter cardiovascular Therapeutics—Program and Abstracts Elsevier Science — 145 — J October 19 Acute coronary syndromes David D. Waters 7 52 7 K November 2 Ablation, pacing, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator Joseph Brugada Richard G. Charles Eric N. Prystowsky Guidant Corporation 27 168 7 L December 21 Raising low high-density lipoprotein levels Thomas A. Pearson William E. Boden Kos 13 65 12 M December 28 Acute coronary syndromes Robert M. Califf Aventis 8 52 13 Total: 13 132 888 (mean 9) Open table in a new tab 8.Reminder to authors to supply several names with addresses of nonbiased reviewers for their manuscripts: Editors have no monopoly on choosing the best reviewers of manuscripts. No one should be more knowledgeable on experts in the subject of the manuscript than the authors of the manuscript. Thus, I urge authors to supply names—preferably at least 3 or 4, and their addresses—of nonlocal, nonbiased potential reviewers of their manuscripts. It is necessary for an author to submit several names because almost certainly some of the potential reviewers will already have a manuscript for review and a second manuscript is not sent to a reviewer already having one. Currently, about 20% of authors supply names of potential reviewers for their manuscripts. After studying the reviews of author-suggested reviewers for 19 years, I am impressed that the author-suggested reviewers are of high quality, and the author-suggested reviewers are no more biased toward their manuscripts than the editor-selected reviewers. Indeed, many manuscripts have been reviewed by one author-suggested reviewer and by one editor-suggested reviewer, and the author-suggested reviewer recommended rejection, while the editor-suggested reviewer recommended acceptance. 9.Publishing the AJC electronically: Mr. Spieler discussed what we can expect from this technology now and in the future. He stated that the full text and graphics of all 1,200 Elsevier journals are now posted on the Internet through ScienceDirect, an on-line host system developed and owned by Elsevier Science. ScienceDirect is directed toward end-users at institutional libraries and cuts across all subject areas of science, engineering, and medicine. Mr. Spieler encouraged the board members to access the Web site to review the journals’ tables of contents and other features for free at http://www.sciencedirect.com. Mr. Spieler also remarked that Elsevier has available another on-line service for cardiologists, titled Cardiosource (http://www.cardiosource.com), which contains the full text of 17 Elsevier journals in the field of cardiology, including Journal of the American College of Cardiology, The American Journal of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research, and The Lancet. Cardiosource is geared specifically to the practicing cardiologist. The site has a powerful search engine and includes other important features in addition to the full text of the 17 journals, including a 24-hour Reuters Newsfeed of medical news, a superb database of clinical trials in cardiovascular medicine, personalized alerting features, an updated listing of over 300 professional medical meetings, an on-line cardiology forum, and links to related Web sites. The meeting was followed by a fine reception provided by the publisher.