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Onward

2019; Elsevier BV; Volume: 16; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jacr.2018.11.024

1558-349X

Ruth C. Carlos,

Health Sciences Research and Education

Because it’s always been a matter of trust.—Billy Joel, “A Matter of Trust” Anyone who has raised children is intimately acquainted with the stages of growth, transitioning from infancy and toddlerhood through teen years and adulthood. The JACR enters its own transition after the leadership of Bruce Hillman, MD. It will remain reassuringly recognizable as we continue to inform, educate, and engage readers. We continue to improve upon the breadth and quality of its content, furthering the journal’s reach through its leadership in print, online, and social media innovations. An editorially independent JACR plays an essential role in advancing knowledge about health services research and policy, clinical practice management, education, leadership, and data science in support of evidence-based, patient-centric imaging care. The JACR will address its mission by growing and diversifying our authorship, reviewership, and readership. Through editorial leadership, the journal will partner across our spectrum of stakeholders to ensure the integrity of peer review, promote methodological quality, and undertake innovative experiments to become the first destination for authors and readers seeking reliable, accurate, and pertinent information to improve their practices and patient-centric care. Our goal is to become the premier journal in our core niche, as measured by impact factor, alternative metrics of readership, stakeholder penetration, quality (eg, aggregating usage, captures, mentions, social media, and citations), and authorship and readership growth. To achieve this goal, the journal will do the following:■Continually earn reader trust and engagement by publishing content that educates, engages, entertains, and occasionally provokes. Health policy and health services research and research in clinical practice management will support the recognition of the value of radiology, delivering patient-centered care and serving as stewards of appropriate resource use. Content in leadership and education will help build the next generation of practice and research leaders. Data science will be advanced as relevant adjuncts of radiologic care.■Make data-informed editorial content decisions. Journal metrics will guide strategies for author and content development. These data identify opportunities to grow submissions in topics we already publish with higher citation impact while maintaining article diversity. We will complement the impact factor with a citation-independent metric that more immediately measures our impact on practice and leverages our digital media properties to magnify our reach. Augmenting metric analyses, periodic reader and author surveys will assess their needs and perceptions of the journal to enhance their experience and eliminate barriers to author submission and reader access.■Increase engagement and promote methodological excellence. We now offer authors an opportunity to develop visual abstracts that provide microlearning shareable through digital media. To support novice authors, we are considering an author consultation service. To increase content access, we have streamlined earning reader CME.■Ensure integrity of peer review and the information we publish. The process of peer review is flawed. Slow, expensive, and prone to inconsistency, it remains the best system we have. To enhance the peer review process, we are developing a toolkit for new reviewers and those who wish to refresh their knowledge. We will offer reviewer CME linked to the quality and timeliness of review.■Adhere to the highest standard of publication and editorial ethics. We have created a Publication Ethics Committee separate from the editorial process. This group is charged with evaluating alleged publication misconduct. The latter two initiatives underpin journal integrity and the trust we ask of our readers. In the post-truth era of fake news, scholarly publications such as the JACR have a duty to define and promote evidence-based practices. In summary, the journal strengths include unique content, brand recognition and loyalty, patient partnership, digital media expertise, and a dedicated staff. Fragmentation of scholarly publishing with online and open access journals is an opportunity for the JACR to attract authors searching for a trustworthy journal with transparent and ethical review and editorial processes, novel author services, and digital engagement. Bruce, Lillibet, and BusyBee are enjoying their well-earned rest after the last 10 years of rapid growth and success. I look forward to spending the next few years with you.