Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 13: 493
DOI: 10.1111/jth.12888
EDITORIAL
Statistically speaking F . R . R O S E N D A A L , * † F . J O H N S T O N E , § S . G U G I N A – and P . H . R E I T S M A * ‡ *Department of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Leiden University Medical Center; †Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; §JTH Editorial Office, Aberdeen, United Kingdom; –JTH Editorial Office; and ‡Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
To cite this article: Rosendaal FR, Johnstone F, Gugina S, Reitsma PH. Journal statistics. J Thromb Haemost 2015; 13: 493.
‘Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.’ (from The Sign of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859–1930) As in previous years, we would like to share with the authors and readers of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis a summary of statistics that describe the submission and data processing in 2014. Overall, manuscript submissions to the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis in 2014 were higher than in 2013, at 1176 manuscripts. The 2013 figure of 1141 manuscripts also included 33 State of the Art papers submitted for the 2013 ISTH meeting in Amsterdam, so the increase of over 6% is notable. There is still a disparity between the number of clinical and fundamental science papers being received (65.6% and 34.4%, respectively), especially as the number of the latter seems to be falling (6% since 2013). We have already announced that we will try to seek ways to remedy this, so that the journal continues to be a forum for high-quality basic science papers. The low proportion of fundamental articles is not the result of preferential acceptance of clinical papers; on the contrary, the chance of acceptance was highest for basic papers. In terms of country distribution, of all submissions, 49% came from Europe, 26% from North America, 20% from Asia, 2% from Australia and New Zealand, 2% from South America and 1% from Africa. The mean time from submission to first decision per manuscript increased slightly as compared with 2013, from 2.4 weeks to 2.7 weeks. The manuscript acceptance rate was 27% in 2014, a figure that has been fairly constant over the last eight years. The 2013 impact factor of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis was 5.55. It is still too early to speculate about the 2014 impact factor, but expectations are for the change to be marginal. We will know the definite figure in June 2015. The team of Associate Editors continue to make an important contribution to the journal. There were not
© 2015 International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis
many changes to the team in 2014, but two new Associate Editors, John-Bjarne Hansen and X. Long Zheng, were added. Owing to a higher number of papers than last year being sent for methodological review, it was decided to add Willem Lijfering as a further methodological reviewer. Walter Ageno took over from Sabine Eichinger as SSC Editor and the SSC Guidance Committee finalized author instructions for guideline and guidance papers; Marcel Levi is now the Associate Editor responsible for this category. The Editorial Board was updated at the end of 2014 and members were required to have reviewed a significant number of papers over the past two years to qualify. A few individuals closely involved with the journal, e.g. previous Associate Editors, were also appointed to the board. The current Editorial Board has 93 members. In the May 2014 Editorial we launched a ‘Case of the Month’ category, which will see a case report featured in some issues, and the first of these was published in that issue. In 2014, we also introduced the ‘Forum’ category, which we use to publish perspectives that are commentaries not linked to a specific paper in the issue. The journal now uses the ‘Early View’ facility, which means that each accepted article is posted online in its definitive form once all corrections are received from the author and the editorial office, so the final article is now available much sooner than previously. October saw ISTH launch the first World Thrombosis Day, with five journals simultaneously publishing an article on the burden of venous thrombosis. The bibliometrics indicate that this is by far the most downloaded article from the 2014 Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis to date. Moreover, on the basis of social media engagement, this is the second most ‘talked’ about Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis article of that year. All in all, 2014 was a good year for the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.
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DOI: 10.1111/jth.12888
EDITORIAL
Statistically speaking F . R . R O S E N D A A L , * † F . J O H N S T O N E , § S . G U G I N A – and P . H . R E I T S M A * ‡ *Department of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Leiden University Medical Center; †Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; §JTH Editorial Office, Aberdeen, United Kingdom; –JTH Editorial Office; and ‡Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
To cite this article: Rosendaal FR, Johnstone F, Gugina S, Reitsma PH. Journal statistics. J Thromb Haemost 2015; 13: 493.
‘Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.’ (from The Sign of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859–1930) As in previous years, we would like to share with the authors and readers of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis a summary of statistics that describe the submission and data processing in 2014. Overall, manuscript submissions to the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis in 2014 were higher than in 2013, at 1176 manuscripts. The 2013 figure of 1141 manuscripts also included 33 State of the Art papers submitted for the 2013 ISTH meeting in Amsterdam, so the increase of over 6% is notable. There is still a disparity between the number of clinical and fundamental science papers being received (65.6% and 34.4%, respectively), especially as the number of the latter seems to be falling (6% since 2013). We have already announced that we will try to seek ways to remedy this, so that the journal continues to be a forum for high-quality basic science papers. The low proportion of fundamental articles is not the result of preferential acceptance of clinical papers; on the contrary, the chance of acceptance was highest for basic papers. In terms of country distribution, of all submissions, 49% came from Europe, 26% from North America, 20% from Asia, 2% from Australia and New Zealand, 2% from South America and 1% from Africa. The mean time from submission to first decision per manuscript increased slightly as compared with 2013, from 2.4 weeks to 2.7 weeks. The manuscript acceptance rate was 27% in 2014, a figure that has been fairly constant over the last eight years. The 2013 impact factor of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis was 5.55. It is still too early to speculate about the 2014 impact factor, but expectations are for the change to be marginal. We will know the definite figure in June 2015. The team of Associate Editors continue to make an important contribution to the journal. There were not
© 2015 International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis
many changes to the team in 2014, but two new Associate Editors, John-Bjarne Hansen and X. Long Zheng, were added. Owing to a higher number of papers than last year being sent for methodological review, it was decided to add Willem Lijfering as a further methodological reviewer. Walter Ageno took over from Sabine Eichinger as SSC Editor and the SSC Guidance Committee finalized author instructions for guideline and guidance papers; Marcel Levi is now the Associate Editor responsible for this category. The Editorial Board was updated at the end of 2014 and members were required to have reviewed a significant number of papers over the past two years to qualify. A few individuals closely involved with the journal, e.g. previous Associate Editors, were also appointed to the board. The current Editorial Board has 93 members. In the May 2014 Editorial we launched a ‘Case of the Month’ category, which will see a case report featured in some issues, and the first of these was published in that issue. In 2014, we also introduced the ‘Forum’ category, which we use to publish perspectives that are commentaries not linked to a specific paper in the issue. The journal now uses the ‘Early View’ facility, which means that each accepted article is posted online in its definitive form once all corrections are received from the author and the editorial office, so the final article is now available much sooner than previously. October saw ISTH launch the first World Thrombosis Day, with five journals simultaneously publishing an article on the burden of venous thrombosis. The bibliometrics indicate that this is by far the most downloaded article from the 2014 Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis to date. Moreover, on the basis of social media engagement, this is the second most ‘talked’ about Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis article of that year. All in all, 2014 was a good year for the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.
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