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Throughout 2007 my editorial messages have largely focused on communicating the current status and future direction for the Journal. In this piece I will summarize our performance in 2007 and our plans for the coming year.
Early on, we outlined the immediate changes to the Journal.1 These changes included our decisions to publish weekly and to concentrate our advertisements in the front matter of the Journal paired with abstracts from recent issues to provide approximately 90 pages of uninterrupted editorial material in the print journal. We adopted a new design focusing, in part, on a more reader-friendly presentation of illustrations and began publishing an increasing amount of supplemental material online. We developed mission and vision statements to guide our decisions, revised the review process to speed decision-making on submitted manuscripts, and committed to publish a greater percentage of high-impact papers online ahead of print (“e-Pub”). We promised to reduce the acceptance-to-publication lag2 (note: we have not yet achieved this goal; see below). In July we published our strategic plan; this plan has been useful to measure our progress and to map “next steps.”3 In October, we joined with other biomedical journals in dedicating one issue to global health (our decision to do this in coming years will depend, in part, on input from our readers).4 We have recently launched our weekly podcast initiative.5
2007 PROGRESS REPORT
Following the previously published format3:
People.
We have secured a talented and committed staff in the two Rochesters to respond to the needs of our readers and authors; the senior editorial team similarly is fully engaged and aligned to meet your needs. The Editorial Board is increasingly functioning as “expertise teams” with the senior editors to provide timely and competent advice in the review process. We are committed to …
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