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SPECIAL COMMENTARY State of the Journal Joseph F Waeckerle, MD Editor in Chief Michael L Callaham, MD Deputy Editor Margaret Levene Director [Waeckerle JF, Callaham ML, Levene M: State of the journal. Ann Emerg Med January 1999;33:1-2.] Annals celebrated another milestone in the past 12 months when it broke through the 26,000-subscriber mark world- wide. Internationally, Annals is most popular in Canada, Australia, and Great Britain. We are proud that Annals is being read in other countries with burgeoning emergency medicine specialties. In keeping with our interest in reaching out to emer- gency physicians internationally, we are proud to announce the appointmentof our first international editor to the Editorial Board. Ian Stiell, MD, of the Ottawa Civic Hospital, has agreed to serve on the Annals Editorial Board. J Steve Stapczysnki, MD, has also joined the Editorial Board, and Marianne Gausche, MD, also has agreed to join Annals as a Consulting Editor. Linda Keyes, MD, of Alameda County Medical Center, has been appointed our Resident Editor, taking over from the capable hands and mind of Brent R Asplin, MD. As we do each year, we award special recognition to 1998’s outstanding consultants based on their promptness and our scoring of the quality of their reviews (see p 25A). We are of course grateful for the extraordinary effortsof all the consultants on that list. We are fortunate to have an outstanding group of consultants to call on, and we continue to seek new reviewers to participate in the peer review process. In this issue, we report our annual submission statistics. During the 12-month period from July 1997 through June 1998, we received 718 submissions and accepted 31%. The mean time from submission of manuscripts to the ini- tial editorial decision was 45 days. Thirty-five percent of the contributors who submitted manuscripts received an editorial decision within 30 calendar days. For papers of highenough quality to be accepted on first review, the mean time was 15 days and the median 10 days. For rejections, the mean was 45 days, the median 42; for papers that needed revision, the mean time was 75 and the median time was 66 days for the initial decision. After manuscripts were Copyright © 1999 by the American College of Emergency Physicians. 0196-0644/99/$8.00 + 0 47/1/94933 Reprints not available from the authors. JANUARY 1999 33:1 ANNALS OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE 1

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S P E C I A L C O M M E N T A R Y

State of the Journal

Joseph F Waeckerle, MDEditor in ChiefMichael L Callaham, MDDeputy EditorMargaret LeveneDirector

[Waeckerle JF, Callaham ML, Levene M: State of the journal.Ann Emerg Med January 1999;33:1-2.]

Annals celebrated another milestone in the past 12 monthswhen it broke through the 26,000-subscriber mark world-wide. Internationally, Annals is most popular in Canada,Australia, and Great Britain. We are proud that Annals isbeing read in other countries with burgeoning emergencymedicine specialties.

In keeping with our interest in reaching out to emer-gency physicians internationally, we are proud to announcethe appointmentof our first international editor to theEditorial Board. Ian Stiell, MD, of the Ottawa Civic Hospital,has agreed to serve on the Annals Editorial Board. J SteveStapczysnki, MD, has also joined the Editorial Board,and Marianne Gausche, MD, also has agreed to join Annalsas a Consulting Editor. Linda Keyes, MD, of AlamedaCounty Medical Center, has been appointed our ResidentEditor, taking over from the capable hands and mind ofBrent R Asplin, MD.

As we do each year, we award special recognition to1998’s outstanding consultants based on their promptnessand our scoring of the quality of their reviews (see p 25A).We are of course grateful for the extraordinary efforts of allthe consultants on that list. We are fortunate to have anoutstanding group of consultants to call on, and we continueto seek new reviewers to participate in the peer review process.

In this issue, we report our annual submission statistics.During the 12-month period from July 1997 through June1998, we received 718 submissions and accepted 31%.The mean time from submission of manuscripts to the ini-tial editorial decision was 45 days. Thirty-five percent ofthe contributors who submitted manuscripts received aneditorial decision within 30 calendar days. For papers ofhigh enough quality to be accepted on first review, the meantime was 15 days and the median 10 days. For rejections, themean was 45 days, the median 42; for papers that neededrevision, the mean time was 75 and the median time was66 days for the initial decision. After manuscripts were

Copyright © 1999 by the AmericanCollege of Emergency Physicians.

0196-0644/99/$8.00 + 047/1/94933

Reprints not available from theauthors.

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accepted, the average time to publication was 121 days,down almost 2 weeks from the previous year.

Our Editorial Board has reviewed our peer review systemand will be implementing a Peer Review Strategic Plan in1999. The object of this plan is to improve the quality ofour authors’ and reviewers’ experience by giving each morefocused feedback and to decrease the time taken to makea decision. The plan lays the groundwork for totally elec-tronic or Web-based peer review in future years.

Highlights of the past year included the publication ofour first State of the Art article on noninvasive ventilationby John J Marini and John Hotchkiss. Important guidelines,such as those for pediatric equipment and supplies, werepublished. The Future of Emergency Medicine ResearchConference proceedings were published in 1998, as well asACEP’s workforce study and ABEM’s report of the ResidencyTraining Information Task Force. Our Residents’ Perspectivewas launched and published 4 times last year on a widerange of topics of interest to residents.

Once again, Annals was featured in the media this year.From October 1997 to July 1998, the Journal generatedmore than 120 articles in more than 50 newspapers, jour-nals, and magazines, including the Journal of the AmericanMedical Association, the Dallas Morning News, the ChicagoTribune, and Investor’s Business Daily.

In 1998, full-text of Annals was made available on theWorld Wide Web. All issues from 1994 to the present are in asearchable database, with full text, references, figures, andtables. A Web subscription is heavily discounted for sub-scribers to the print version. Although convenient for every-one,we are hoping that international subscribers find this anespecially efficient way to receive Annals.For those who wouldlikemore information, the URL is www.mosby.com/aem.Table of contents, abstracts, and classified ads are freefor viewing.