Author Affiliations: Dr DeAngelis is Editor in Chief and Dr Fontanarosa (phil.fontanarosa@jama-archives.org) is Executive Editor, JAMA.
Biomedical journals are constantly evolving, with new strategies to expedite review and publication of scientific articles, with innovative methods to enhance content delivery, and with new features to better serve the informational needs of readers. Yet despite the rapidly changing landscape of scientific publication and information delivery, one fact remains constant—a journal is only as good as its authors and peer reviewers. Accordingly, the success of JAMA is a direct reflection of the dedicated efforts of authors who submit their best manuscripts to JAMA and of expert peer reviewers who critically evaluate that work.
With that in mind, we express our deep appreciation to all authors—physician-scientists, medical researchers, clinical investigators, and all other authors—for submitting manuscripts to JAMA and for providing us with the opportunity to consider their work for publication. The 5878 major manuscripts submitted to JAMA in 2010 addressed nearly every field of medicine and included major clinical trials, innovative translational investigations, high-quality observational studies, rigorous systematic review articles, and insightful scholarly commentaries. In the past year, authors of JAMA manuscripts represented 79 countries, and 40% of submitted manuscripts were from authors outside the United States.
In this issue of JAMA, we are publishing, with our sincere thanks, the names of all peer reviewers who completed manuscript reviews for JAMA in 2010.1 These JAMA peer reviewers have provided clinical, scientific, and methodological expertise representing virtually every medical specialty and subspecialty and every area of medical research. We extend our appreciation to each peer reviewer for providing objective, insightful, and rigorous critiques of submitted manuscripts, and for making such important contributions to maintaining and enhancing the clinical relevance and scientific quality of articles published in JAMA.
The quality and importance of manuscripts submitted to JAMA and the rigorous nature of the peer review process are reflected in several key measures (Table). The turnaround times for editorial decision making, for peer review, and from manuscript submission to publication have remained efficient and will continue to improve as more content is published online first. In 2010, the median time from submission to acceptance for all articles was 52 days; however, this time was 25 days for articles published online first. The median time from acceptance to publication was 34 days for all articles and 20 days for articles published online first. Also, JAMA 's impact factor for 2009 was 28.9, reflecting the importance with which the scientific and biomedical research communities regard articles that appear in JAMA.
We thank all JAMA authors and all JAMA peer reviewers for their contributions in making JAMA one of the world's most respected medical journals. We look forward to the continued indispensible contributions of our peer reviewer consultants in helping to enhance the scientific quality and ensure the integrity of articles published in JAMA, and we invite and encourage authors to consider JAMA as their journal of first choice for publication of their important papers. As JAMA and other biomedical journals continue to evolve, we are grateful for the constant, loyal support of JAMA authors and reviewers.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Both authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest and none were reported.
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