EJVES, the Leading Journal in Vascular Surgery, is One of the Numerous Scientific Pillars of the ESVS
2019; Elsevier BV; Volume: 58; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/j.ejvs.2019.08.016
ISSN1532-2165
AutoresPhilippe Kolh, Florian Dick, Henrik Sillesen,
Tópico(s)Vascular Procedures and Complications
ResumoThe 2018 impact factor (IF) of the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (EJVES) is 3.642, a 6% decrease on 2017. The EJVES now ranks (by IF) 28 out of 203 surgical specialty journals. By comparison, the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) has a 2018 IF of 3.243 and ranks 38, the Journal of Endovascular Therapy (JEVT) has an IF of 2.986 and ranks 50, while the Annals of Vascular Surgery (AVS) ranks 151 with an IF of 1.179. Therefore, the EJVES remains, for the third year in a row, the leading vascular surgery journal. The European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) Guidelines on the management of descending thoracic aortic diseases contributed the highest number of citations, followed by the ESVS Guidelines on the diseases of mesenteric arteries and veins.1Riambau V. Böckler D. Brunkwall J. Cao P. Chiesa R. Coppi G. et al.Editor's Choice - management of descending thoracic aorta diseases: clinical practice guidelines of the european society for vascular surgery (ESVS).Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2017; 53: 4-52Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (606) Google Scholar, 2Björck M. Koelemay M. Acosta S. Bastos Goncalves F. Kölbel T. Kolkman J.J. et al.Editor's Choice - management of the diseases of the mesenteric arteries and veins. Clinical practice guidelines of the European Society of Vascular Surgery (ESVS).Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2017; 53: 460-510Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (121) Google Scholar Several other ESVS Guidelines have been published recently: in 2018 (on atherosclerotic carotid and vertebral artery diseases and on vascular access); and in 2019 (on the management of aorto-iliac artery aneurysms).3Naylor A.R. Ricco J.B. de Borst G.J. Debus S. de Haro J. Halliday A. et al.Editor's Choice - management of atherosclerotic carotid and vertebral artery disease: 2017 clinical practice guidelines of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS).Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2018; 55: 3-81Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (663) Google Scholar, 4Schmidli J. Widmer M.K. Basile C. de Donato G. Gallieni M. Gibbons C.P. et al.Editor's Choice - vascular access: 2018 clinical practice guidelines of the european society for vascular surgery (ESVS).Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2018; 55: 757-818Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (327) Google Scholar, 5Wanhainen A. Verzini F. Van Herzeele I. Allaire E. Bown M. Cohnert T. et al.Editor's Choice – european society for vascular surgery (ESVS) 2019 clinical practice guidelines on the management of abdominal aorto-iliac artery aneurysms.Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2019; 57: 8-93Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (1165) Google Scholar Also in 2018, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines on peripheral artery diseases in collaboration with the ESVS were simultaneously published in the European Heart Journal and in the EJVES.6Aboyans V. Ricco J.B. Bartelink M.E.L. Bjorck M. Brodmann M. Cohnert T. et al.Editor's Choice - 2017 ESC guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of peripheral arterial diseases, in collaboration with the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS).Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2018; 55: 305-368Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (519) Google Scholar In 2019, the Global Vascular Guidelines on chronic limb threatening ischaemia (CLTI), a collaboration between the ESVS, the Society for Vascular Surgery, and the World Federation of Vascular Societies, were published in the EJVES and in the JVS, and will be presented at the ESVS Annual Meeting in Hamburg.7Conte M.S. Bradbury A.W. Kolh P. White J.V. Dick F. Fitridge R. et al.Global Vascular Guidelines on the management of chronic limb-threatening ischemia.Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2019; 58: S1-S109Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (493) Google Scholar, 8Conte M.S. Bradbury A.W. Kolh P. White J.V. Dick F. Fitridge R. et al.Global Vascular Guidelines on the management of chronic limb-threatening ischemia.J Vasc Surg. 2019; 69 (e40): 3S-125SAbstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (465) Google Scholar All these Guidelines aim at providing guidance on delivering the best possible care to our patients and are one of the educational pillars of the ESVS. To maximise their dissemination and daily use, App versions of the ESVS Guidelines are available. Among the four other articles that contributed most to the 2018 IF, one reported the results of a meta-analysis on the risk of disease progression in peripheral arterial diseases while one was a systematic review of stroke and mortality rates after carotid artery stenting or carotid endarterectomy.9Sigvant B. Lundin F. Wahlberg E. The risk of disease progression in peripheral arterial disease is higher than expected: a meta-analysis of mortality and disease progression in peripheral arterial disease.Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2016; 51: 395-403Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (150) Google Scholar, 10Paraskevas K.I. Kalmykov E.L. Naylor A.R. Stroke/death rates following carotid artery stenting and carotid endarterectomy in contemporary administrative dataset registries: a systematic review.Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2016; 51: 3-12Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (106) Google Scholar The other two most cited papers reported on a systematic review of endovenous stenting in chronic venous disease secondary to iliac vein obstruction and on an assessment of international outcomes of intact abdominal aortic aneurysm repairs, respectively.11Seager M.J. Busuttil A. Dharmarajah B. Davies A.H. Editor's Choice – a systematic review of endovenous stenting in chronic venous disease secondary to iliac vein obstruction.Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2016; 51: 100-120Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (142) Google Scholar, 12Budtz-Lilly J. Venermo M. Debus S. Behrendt C.A. Altreuther M. Beiles B. et al.Assessment of international outcomes of intact abdominal aortic aneurysm repair over 9 years.Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2017; 54: 13-20Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (86) Google Scholar It is important to bear in mind that the IF, despite its obvious importance, may not be the most reliable indicator of scientific quality or real impact on clinical practice, the ultimate goal of any scientific publication. As a surrogate measure, it is associated with important limitations, such as its focus on scientific “recycling” (i.e. citations) rather than clinical attention (i.e. consumption) or uptake (i.e. implementation), its (arbitrary) temporal limitation to two years following publication, and its susceptibility to manipulation (self citation). In addition, the IF does not consider the educational value of a publication even though, eventually, this might have the greatest impact of all. The EJVES commits equally to high quality clinical research, basic science and vascular biology, and continued medical education.13Dick F. Kolh P. Introducing the new design of the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2019; 57: 1-3Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (4) Google Scholar Its performance should be gauged with careful consideration of all IF limitations and pondered against alternative metrics, including assessment of different IF windows, adjustments for journal self citations and so called reader metrics. EJVES 2018 immediacy index, a reflection of the speed by which the scientific community picks up novel findings, saw a notable jump from 0.97 (2017) to 1.78 indicating that EJVES articles published in 2018 were cited 1.78 times during 2018 on average. This ranks the EJVES 12th out of 203 Journals in surgery while leaving behind other Journals reporting cutting edge vascular surgery research (British Journal of Surgery 1.427; JVS 0.97). Similarly, the EJVES five year IF has increased from 3.498 (2017) to 3.917 whereas the JVS, for instance, remained at 3.616 (3.477 in 2017). This indicates a sustained or even increasing recognition of the high quality research published by the EJVES over the past half decade. Last but not least, the IF adjusted for Journal self citations (2.915 for EJVES in 2018; and 2.574, 2.296 and 1.061 for JVS, JEVT, and AVS, respectively) suggests that the various IFs provide a realistic reflection of the standing of EJVES in the vascular surgery community. Complementary measures of the actual consumption of published research (reader metrics) include Elsevier's PlumX metrics (https://plumanalytics.com), which investigates all items listed in Scopus, the largest database of peer review scientific literature, regarding online views, downloads, captures (book markings), mentions in conventional media and social media likes or shares. As can be seen in Table 1, Table 2, among all EJVES contents, ESVS Clinical Guidelines and Editor's Choice articles (free access) generate the most attention in terms of social media mentions and online captures, suggesting that the clinical practice guidelines exert their expected impact within the medical community.Table 1Top five European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery articles for social media references 2017 to July 2019YearArticle titleArticle typeSocial media references2018Extracranial Veins in Multiple Sclerosis: Is there a Role for Vascular Surgery?Review2272019Editor's Choice – European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) 2019 Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Abdominal Aorto-iliac Artery Aneurysms.Guideline1572019Global Vascular Guidelines on the Management of Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischaemia.Guideline1552017Editor's Choice – Management of the Diseases of Mesenteric Arteries and Veins: Clinical Practice Guidelines of the European Society of Vascular Surgery (ESVS).Guideline822018Editor's Choice – Mid Term Migration and Device Failure Following Endovascular Aneurysm Sealing with the Nellix Stent Graft System - a Single Centre Experience.Article79Social media references include tweets and Facebook likes that reference the research. The table measures the top five articles in Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery from January 2017 to July 2019. Source: PlumX Metrics 2019. Open table in a new tab Table 2Top five European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery articles for online captures 2017 to July 2019YearArticle titleArticle typeCaptures2018Editor's Choice – Management of Atherosclerotic Carotid and Vertebral Artery Disease: 2017 Clinical Practice Guidelines of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS)Guideline2242018Editor's Choice – Vascular Access: 2018 Clinical Practice Guidelines of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS).Guideline1652017Editor's Choice – Management of Descending Thoracic Aorta Diseases: Clinical Practice Guidelines of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS).Guideline1612019Editor's Choice – European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) 2019 Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Abdominal Aorto-iliac Artery Aneurysms.Guideline1322017Editor's Choice – Management of the Diseases of Mesenteric Arteries and Veins: Clinical Practice Guidelines of the European Society of Vascular Surgery (ESVS).Guideline117Captures indicate that a reader wants to return to the research and includes bookmarks, favourites, and code forks among others. The table measures the top five articles published in European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery from January 2017 to July 2019. Source: PlumX Metrics 2019. Open table in a new tab Social media references include tweets and Facebook likes that reference the research. The table measures the top five articles in Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery from January 2017 to July 2019. Source: PlumX Metrics 2019. Captures indicate that a reader wants to return to the research and includes bookmarks, favourites, and code forks among others. The table measures the top five articles published in European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery from January 2017 to July 2019. Source: PlumX Metrics 2019. Even more importantly, reader metrics have more than doubled compared with the previous years, indicating a continuous increase in EJVES practical use for its readership.14Kolh P. Dick F. Halliday A. EJVES: the leading journal in vascular surgery, and one of many highlights for the ESVS Annual Meeting in Valencia.Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2018; 56: 315-317Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (10) Google Scholar, 15Björck M. Kolh P. Into the lead: how EJVES became the leading journal in vascular surgery.Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2017; 54: 273-274Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (3) Google Scholar Fig. 1 indicates the increasing immediate attention to EJVES contents within the social media (consistent with the immediacy index), whereas actual captures of contents need some years to build, but reach much higher levels (consistent with the five year IF). These parallel phenomena confirm the intended development of the Journal and, hopefully, indicate the success of its strategy.13Dick F. Kolh P. Introducing the new design of the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2019; 57: 1-3Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (4) Google Scholar Should a scientific society like ESVS have “non-scientific” activities besides running the highest ranked vascular journal and having the best oral and poster presentations at the annual general meeting? Yes, we definitely should for several reasons! First, full understanding of vascular disease and its treatment will not only result in excellent vascular specialists, but will also be an eminent background for those who will develop new vascular treatments and do vascular research. Therefore, training and education, not only for vascular trainees, but for all vascular specialists, is necessary throughout our careers. This is also very important considering the fast developing technologies we work with, be it for circulating biomarkers, imaging, and/or treatments. During the most recent years, the ESVS has developed a whole line of activities supporting this policy. The ESVS Academy runs numerous workshops on practical aspects of open and endovascular surgery, but also on imaging, vascular medicine and understanding vascular research, designing and analysing trials including how to write scientific papers. Participation in workshops, which take place both during and outside the annual meeting, is almost free thanks to unrestricted support from the ESVS and our industrial partners. At the annual meeting in Hamburg, 60 workshops will be undertaken in addition to the new ESVS Ultrasound duplex certification.16Eiberg J. Vila R. Van Herzeele I. on behalf of the ESVS AcademyThe ESVS Academy is growing….Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2019; 58: 1-2Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF Scopus (3) Google Scholar, 17Eiberg J. Van Herzeele I. On behalf of the ESVS AcademyFrom european training committee to ESVS Academy: the start of a new paradigm in ESVS education.Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2018; 56: 157-158Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (7) Google Scholar The ESVS Masterclass displays vascular procedures performed by international experts during a two day live meeting in January. The first ESVS Masterclass took place in 2019 in Hamburg and will be organised in January 2020 in Helsinki and Hamburg. All procedures are recorded and edited into short videos and are subsequently freely available for ESVS members on the website. Educational Webinars are planned, and the first will be in September with the title: “Carotid Disease: Remaining Controversies after Recent Guidelines”. Three carotid disease experts will discuss live, and streaming of the webinar is free for ESVS members. The next webinar is planned for late autumn. The ESVS Virtual Vascular, an e-based, comprehensive textbook of vascular disease, is being edited by prominent European vascular experts, and will be continuously updated and almost free for ESVS members. The ESVS Spring Meeting will be the new meeting platform for basic and translational vascular science and will be held for the first time in the spring of 2020, in Stockholm. As an ESVS member, the admission fee will be considerably less than for non-members. All these activities will strengthen the scientific components of ESVS and will contribute to the development of the science and treatments of patients suffering from vascular disease globally. That the ESVS is successful is documented by simple statistics: increasing membership, increasing attendance at the annual meeting, and a new record of submitted abstracts again this year (840), the largest for any vascular meeting globally! We wish to conclude by inviting you to Hamburg and by expressing our thanks to all members, authors, reviewers, editorial board members, and associate editors who contribute to the quality of our Journal and our Society. This is a very rewarding journey that we are taking together.14Kolh P. Dick F. Halliday A. EJVES: the leading journal in vascular surgery, and one of many highlights for the ESVS Annual Meeting in Valencia.Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2018; 56: 315-317Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (10) Google Scholar
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