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JCHIMP 7th anniversary.

Robert Ferguson1, Richard Alweis2.   

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Keywords:  7th Anniversary; Greater Baltimore Medical Center; JCHIMP; Rochester Regional Health

Year:  2017        PMID: 29296244      PMCID: PMC5738632          DOI: 10.1080/20009666.2017.1407212

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect        ISSN: 2000-9666


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With this issue, we complete volume 7 of the Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives – JCHIMP. In this perspective piece, we will briefly review the history of the journal and its raison d’etre. The Annals of Internal Medicine recently celebrated its 90th birthday. We are celebrating JCHIMP’s 7th. We will discuss recent changes related to our publisher change at the end of volume 6.

Journal history

JCHIMP was conceived at the Minneapolis national meeting of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine during its Community Hospital Assembly in 2010. With the expert guidance of David Solomon [1], a pioneer in medical electronic publishing, we selected our publisher – Co-action Publishing of Stockholm, Sweden. Our first issue was posted in 2011 and was largely a Baltimore operation [2]. We experienced excellent growth almost immediately and saw a rapidly expanding readership. After the first few years, there were some transitions for the journal editorial leadership. The editor (Robert Ferguson) changed institutional bases in Baltimore, from Union Memorial Hospital to Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC). These changes led to a slowdown in our growth rate in 2013 and 2014. The new arrangements and logistics transiently reduced the number of issues and publications. The associate editor, Richard Alweis, also relocated from Reading, PA, to Rochester, NY, in 2016. In moving to Rochester as DIO, the journal was able to add that system’s sponsorship. The other major change that came to pass was the publisher transfer to Taylor and Francis, a large organization based in the UK and other European countries. The transfer caused significant delays in publications early in 2017 and was partially responsible for the drop in publication numbers as the delays in processes caused some authors to withdraw (Table 1). We telescoped publication dates later in the year in order to meet our self-imposed quota of six issues in 2017. Looking ahead, we expect a normal every 2 months’ publication cycle in 2018, starting with February.
Table 1.

JCHIMP no. of manuscripts and issues per year.

YearNo. of manuscriptsNo. of issues per year
2011314
2012414
2013303 (due to Hiatus)
2014605
2015906
20161106
201790 estimated6
JCHIMP no. of manuscripts and issues per year.

Open access publishing and JCHIMP

Electronic open access publishing has many advantages over the paper medium. It is much faster and less expensive to produce. From the beginning, under Dr Solomon’s guidance, we have stayed with this approach [3]. Although some in the electronic medium recommend immediate publication of accepted manuscripts [4] as soon as they are type set, we maintain ‘issue publications’. We believe, as does the JCHIMP editorial board, that the majority of health care professionals prefer receiving their scientific journals that way. Although bad timing can lead to month long delays, it is still much faster than paper (R4). And when the timing is fortuitous, it can be amazingly efficient. One recent example demonstrated this. We were approached in August 2017 about publishing a manuscript dealing with a survey of 2016 applicants to the internal medicine fellowship match. The 10 authors wanted to expedite publication if possible so that the survey information would be published before the current 2017 fellowship process was completed. The manuscript was published in October, volume 7# 5, less than 3 months after it was initially submitted.

Publication statistics

With this issue containing 11 papers, we have now published 447 manuscripts in 7 years of existence in 35 issues. Our acceptance rate in 2017 as of mid-November is 74%. We expect in 2018 to exceed our previous high of 110. It is exciting to see the variety and locations of the authors – from 15 states and 3 foreign countries (Table 2).
Table 2.

Institutions published in JCHIMP in 2017.

Abington Jefferson Health, PA San Joaquin General Hospital, CA
Easton Hospital, PA St. Francis Medical Center, NJ
Greater Baltimore Medical Center, MD St. Louis University, IL
Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital, PA St. Luke’s Hospital, MO
Hurley Medical Center, MI Trinitas Regional Medical Center, NJ
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY Trios Health
Interfaith Medical Center, NY Universal College of Medical Sciences, PA
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, NY University of Alberta, Canada
John T. Mather Memorial Hospital, NY University of California San Diego, CA
Maryland ACP University of Central Florida, FL
Medizinische Universitat Graz – Austria University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, IL
MedStar Harbor Hospital, MDNew York Presbyterian Hospital, NY University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, IA
New York University SOM, NYOSF St. Francis Medical Center, IL University of Maryland, MD
Reading Health Systems, PA University of Mississippi Medical Center, MS
Rochester Regional Health, NY University of Tennessee, TN
Saba University University of Texas Medical Branch @ Galveston
Saint Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, OH UPMC MercyVirginia Tech Carilion SOM, VA
Institutions published in JCHIMP in 2017. With the transition to the new publishing platform now completed, we are better able to track article downloads for our papers. During the first quarter of this year, as the platform was continuing its development process, article downloads were down from historical norms, but had returned to pre-transition levels during Quarter 3, with 14,508 article downloads during those 3 months. We anticipate further growth during Quarter 4 and achieving new record levels for the journal. Citations of papers in the journal are also on the rise, and our work has been featured in a wide variety of highly respected journals, such as Academic Medicine, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, American Surgeon, Annals of Internal Medicine, BMC Medical Education, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Eye, Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, Journal of Graduate Medical Education, and Medical Teacher to name just a few. JCHIMP is now indexed in the Clarivate (formerly Thomson Reuters) Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). After 18 months in the ESCI, a journal is automatically reviewed, and, if the citation activity is significant, it will then be included in the JCR, and given an official impact factor. The journal is in a good position to achieve this status at the time of the review, and speaks to the high quality of the work published here.

Peer review

A most important part of any peer review journal is the peer-review process which is a major influence on a journal’s editorial practices. We now have in excess of 600 individuals on our active peer reviewer list. Many are residents and medical students who have not previously worked in the peer-review process (Table 3).
Table 3.

JCHIMP peer reviewers, 2017.

Ana Abaroa Salvatierra
Imad Abdulmajeed
Mohammad AbuHishmeh
Khalid Abusaada
Amesh Adalja
Amitesh Agarwal
Manyoo Agarwal
Sharjeel Ahmad
Badr Othman AlBadr
Chuck Albrecht
Osman Ali
Hassan Alkhawam
Ahmed Al-khazraji
Yanal Alnimer
Richard Alweis
Karla Arce
Nobuhiro Ariyoshi
Hamza Aurakzai
Fred Balis
Babar Bashir
Talha Bashir
Sijan Basnet
Karen Beekman
Ewelina Biskup
Patrick Brine
Dolores Buscemi
Wayne Campbell
Lucien Cardinal
Stephanie Chan
Lawrence Cheung
Chester Choi
Dobbin Chow
John Cmar
Ricardo Conti
Gordon Crabtree
Stefan David
Janaki Deepak
Anthony Donato
Jennifer Dooley
Shideh Doroudi
Ryan Steven D’Souza
Abhiram Duvvuri
Asher Edwards
Ahmed Elantably
Emmanuel Elueze
Margaret Eng
Alex Essenmacher
Robert Ferguson
Laurel Fick
Paul Foster
Andrew Frei
Ethan Fried
Joseph Fuscaldo
Sonal Gandhi
Vishnu Garla
George Waldon Garriss
Ibrahim Ghobrial
Julieta Gilson
Venkata Subhash Gorrepati
Sunil Goyal
Gaurav Gulati
Mohammadali Habibi
Ali Haq
Che Harris
Duosha Hu
Tom Hu
Rajasekhar Jagarlamudi
Elie Jean
Meherwan B Joshi
Alan Kaell
Aditya Kalakonda
Yugandhar Kandimalla
Apurwa Karki
Hameem I Kawsar
Jason Kliiger
Ajay Koirala
Victor Kolade
Mahesh Krishnamurthy
Irena Kuca
Sapna Kuehl
Dongyan Liu
John Wesley Logan
Srinivasa Madhavan
Bader Madoukh
Naba Mainali
Srikrishna Malayala
Jayaprakash Manda
Jayadev Manikkam Umakanthan
Henry Meilman
Janet Memark
Ida Micaily.
Izza Mir
Dimitra Mitsani
Penchala Mittadodla
Mahsa Mohebtash
Nargiz Nargiz Muganlinskaya
Marc Mugmon
Sada Mustafa
Monica Mutyala
Swaroopa Nalamalapu
Salik Nazir
Swathi Nemani
Binh Nguyen
Yuliya Nudelman
FNU Nutan
Abdillahi Omar
David Joshua Ozeri
Zahra Pakbaz
Phil Panzarella
Kinnari Parikh
Sarah Park
Richard Pomerantz
Resham Poudel
Salil Rajayer
Rajarajeshwari Ramachandran
Zahra Rezvani
Jaclyn Rivington
Timothy Ryan
Peter Saikali
Fardad Sarabchi
Emily Schehlein
Sarah A Schmalzle
Simranjit Sekhon
Syed Raza Shah
Ankita Shashidhar
Chirag Sheth
Mansur Shomali
Nazia Siddiqui
David Gary Smith
Shauna Thariath
Jayaram Thimmapuram
Jack Tomen
Dena Tran
Nay Tun
Patrick Twohig
Hakim Uqdah
Ahsan Wahab
David Weisman
Manajyoti Yadav
Jessica Young
Amr Youssef
JCHIMP peer reviewers, 2017. Inexperienced reviewers are guided in the process [5]. We make certain to not ask them to do more than that of which they are capable. A good review is time-consuming when done carefully and thoughtfully. We don’t want to overburden any individual reviewer. Having the critical mass of reviewers that we now have allows us to limit most reviewers to no more than two requests per year. We have also compacted our review times from three weeks to two. This allows us to move on to alternate reviewers if necessary sooner.
  2 in total

1.  Origins of JCHIMP.

Authors:  Robert P Ferguson
Journal:  J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect       Date:  2011-05-09

2.  Peer review.

Authors:  Robert P Ferguson; Stephanie M Griffin
Journal:  J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect       Date:  2012-10-15
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