The 2011 meeting of the Editorial Board of The American Journal of Cardiology (AJC) was held on April 3, 2011, in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the time of the Annual
Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology. The meeting's purpose was
to review the AJC's publication results in 2010, to recognize particularly those AJC board members who reviewed the most manuscripts in 2010, and to receive suggestions
and criticisms from board members on ways to improve the journal. The meeting went
as follows:
- 1Introduction of new editorial board members (Table 1).Table 1New Editorial Board members for 2010
Evan Applebaum James P. Daubert Giovanni Filardo Hani Jneid Lori Jean Mosca Hartzell V. Schaff - 2AJC board members reviewing the most manuscripts in 2010. The publisher provided plaques to each of the 7 top AJC reviewers for 2010 (Table 2), and they read as follows:Table 2Top American Journal of Cardiology Editorial Board reviewers in 2010
Name Manuscripts Reviewed Antonio Abbate 10 Pablo Avanzas 9 Monty M. Bodenheimer 9 Marc Cohen 9 Toby R. Engel 9 Gregory Y.H. Lip 9 Don Poldermans 9 In appreciation toNAMETop ReviewerThe American Journal of Cardiology2010 - 3Number of manuscripts submitted, withdrawn, accepted, and declined in 2010 (Table 3).Table 3Manuscripts submitted to The American Journal of Cardiology in 2010
Total 2,917 (100%) Withdrawn 24 Accepted 684 (24%) Declined 2,209 (76%) - 4Sources of manuscripts submitted to the AJC in 2010 (Table 4).Table 4Sources of manuscripts submitted to The American Journal of Cardiology in 2010
Source Submitted Accepted Outside the United States 1,915 344 (18%) United States 978 340 (35%) Total 2,893 684 (24%) - 5Number of editorial pages, types and topics of articles published in the AJC in 2010 (Table 5).Table 5Number of editorial pages and types and topics of reports published in The American Journal of Cardiology in 2010 (Volumes 105 and 106, January 1 to December 15; nonsymposium issues)
Editorial pages—Total 3,769 Reports 3,585 Readers' Comments (number of comments/number of replies) 65 (68/10) Staff and Editorial Board 48 (1%) Contents 67 (2%) Instructions to authors 4 (0.001%) Types of articles 626 Multipatient studies 562 (90%) Case reports 8 (1%) Reviews 22 (4%) Editorials 12 (2%) Editor's Roundtables (consensus statements) 5 (1%) Interviews 0 From the Editor columns 4 (1%) Nonpatient studies 5 (1%) Historical studies 8 (1%) Topics of articles 626 Coronary artery disease 252 (40%) Preventive cardiology 66 (11%) Arrhythmias and conduction disturbances 41 (7%) Heart failure 49 (8%) Valvular heart disease 35 (6%) Cardiomyopathy 33 (5%) Congenital heart disease 49 (8%) Methods 14 (2%) Systemic hypertension 11 (11%) Miscellaneous 68 (1%) Historical studies 8 (2%) - 6Number of manuscripts submitted and published and/or accepted in the AJC in 1983 through 2010, the 28 full years of the present editorship (Table 6).Table 6Number of manuscripts submitted and published in The American Journal of Cardiology (1983 to 2010)
Year Number Submitted Published or Accepted Percentage Accepted 1983 1,234 643 52% 1984 1,605 747 46% 1985 1,707 645 38% 1986 1,574 616 39% 1987 1,525 695 46% 1988 1,496 636 42% 1989 1,740 699 40% 1990 1,717 662 38% 1991 1,615 680 42% 1992 1,873 664 35% 1993 1,997 619 31% 1994 1,783 604 34% 1995 1,844 668 36% 1996 1,930 701 36% 1997 1,898 768 40% 1998 1,992 631 31% 1999 2,170 703 32% 2000 2,226 630 28% 2001 2,068 682 33% 2002 2,171 683 31% 2003 2,190 783 36% 2004 2,109 842 39% 2005 2,661 984 37% 2006 3,061 653 21% 2007 3,184 710 22% 2008 2,888 709 25% 2009 2,864 728 25% 2010 2,893 684 24% Total 58,015 19,469 - 7Number of articles and Readers' Comments published and number of editorial pages utilized in the AJC from 1983 through 2010, the 28 full years of the present editorship (Table 7).Table 7Number of reports and editorial pages for reports and Readers' Comments published in The American Journal of Cardiology (1983 to 2010)
Year Pages for Reports Pages for Readers' Comments Total Number of Reports Number of Readers' Comments 1983 3,130 27 3,157 643 53 1984 3,007 36 3,043 747 80 1985 2,623 21 2,644 645 40 1986 2,627 17 2,644 616 40 1987 2,810 23 2,833 695 45 1988 2,646 26 2,672 636 60 1989 2,903 19 2,922 699 36 1990 3,001 20 3,021 662 40 1991 3,165 38 3,203 680 59 1992 3,211 46 3,257 711 53 1993 2,890 37 2,927 650 64 1994 2,493 31 2,524 604 46 1995 2,570 34 2,604 668 52 1996 2,775 29 2,804 658 52 1997 3,328 32 3,360 826 45 1998 3,048 35 3,083 664 37 1999 3,015 38 3,053 680 42 2000 2,962 38 3,000 648 37 2001 3,862 37 3,899 701 39 2002 2,835 45 2,880 680 45 2003 2,982 35 3,017 763 32 2004 3,131 39 3,170 808 42 2005 3,242 43 3,285 736 49 2006 3,406 65 3,471 695 70 2007 3,540 50 3,590 695 59 2008 3,474 48 3,522 647 59 2009 3,491 32 3,523 632 46 2010 3,585 65 3,650 626 68 Total 85,752 1,006 86,758 19,115 1,390
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2011
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2011
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