9th anniversary of JCHIMP.

We have completed volume 9 of the Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives â€" JCHIMP. In this perspective piece we discuss the many achievements of our journal, including our impact factor, the diversity of institutions publishing, our editorial board, and the importance of our reviewers.

Volume 9 of JCHIMP was completed in December 2019. The journal continued to grow and expand as this report will detail. In the 6 issues of volume 9, there was 122 peer-reviewed manuscripts published, an increase of 11% above our previous high in 2016 (Table 1). This brings our total in 9 volumes and 46 issues to 672 manuscripts. Similar expansion was seen in article downloads in 2019 (Figure 1).

Table 1.

JCHIMP # of manuscripts and issues per year.

Year	No. of manuscripts	No. of issues per year
2011	31	4
2012	41	4
2013	30	3 (due to Hiatus)
2014	60	5
2015	90	6
2016	110	6
2017	89	6
2018	99	6
2019	122	6

Figure 1.

Article downloads.

Our authors in volume 9 came from 69 different institutions, from university and community resources (Table 2) including 7 from outside the USA. Early submissions for volume 10 indicate continued growth.

Table 2.

Institutions published in 2019.

Abington Jefferson, PA

Anne Arundel Medical Center, MD

Billings Clinic, MT

Brooklyn Hospital Center, NY

City of Hope Medical Center, CA

Detroit Medical Center, MI

Dow University College of Medicine, Pakistan

Drexel University/Easton Hospital, PA

Easton Hospital, PA

Florida Hospital, FL

Forest Hills Hospital, NY

Fundacion Valle Del Lili, Colombia

Greater Baltimore Medical Center, MD

Harlem Hospital, NY

Hennepin County Medical Center, MN

Hurley Medical Center, MI

Interfaith Medical Center, NY

Jefferson Health, PA

Johns Hopkins University, MD

Keystone Health, PA

Leighton Hospital, UK

Long Island Community Hospital, NY

Maryland Chapter, American College of Physicians

Mayo Clinic Health System, MN

McLaren Regional Medical Center, MI

MedStar Franklin Square, MD

MedStar Harbor Hospital, MD

MedStar Good Samaritan, MD

MedStar Union Memorial, MD

Methodist Health System, TX

Mount Sinai-Elmhurst Hospital, NY

Oak Hill Hospital, FL

Palisades Medical Center, NJ

Rapides Regional Medical Center, LA

Rawalpindi General Hospital, Pakistan

Richmond University Medical Center, NY

Riverside University Health System, CA

Rochester Regional Health, NY

Saba University, Saba

Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center, Israel

Saint Agnes Hospital, MD

St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, MA

Saint Francis Medical Center, IL

San Joaquin, CA

St. Luke’s Hospital, KS

St. Mary Mercy, MI

St. Mary’s Health Center, MO

St. Mary’s Medical Center, CA

St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center, WI

Suburban Hospital, MD

Temple University Hospital, PA

Texas Tech University Health Science School of Medicine, TX

Tower Health/Reading Hospital, PA

Toyohashi Municipal Hospital, Japan

Unity Hospital, NY

Ulm University Hospital, Germany

University of California Riverside, CA

Univ. of Central Florida, FL

University of Illinois COM @ Peoria, IL

University of Kansas Medical Center, KS

University of Kentucky, KY

University of Maryland, MD

University of Maryland Medical Center – Midtown, MD

University of Mississippi Medical Center, MS

University of North Florida, FL

University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis, TN

UPNC Pinnacle, PA

Yale University School of Medicine, CT

Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center, Israel

Directions for the journal are provided by the CEB (Chimp Editorial Board) which conferences quarterly and includes a widely diverse membership (Table 3). We are extremely pleased that the board now includes Melvin Blanchard, M.D. Dr. Blanchard relocated to Baltimore as chair of medicine at the journal’s home base, Greater Baltimore Medical Center. Dr. Blanchard is past president of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine while based at Washington University in St. Louis where he was the internal medicine residency program director. Dr. Blanchard will be writing on patient safety in volume 10.

Table 3.

Editorial board.

Editorial TeamRobert P. Ferguson, MD, Editor, Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC)Richard Alweis, MD, Associate Editor, Rochester Regional HealthJeannette Huff, Associate Administrator, Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC)

Editorial BoardTalha Bashir, MD, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, NM, USAMelvin Blanchard, MD, GBMC, MD, USALucien Cardinal, MD, Babylon, NY, USAPaul Foster, MD, GBMC, MD, USAVijay Gayam, Interfaith Medical Center, NY, USANowreen Haq, MD, Johns Hopkins Bayview, MD, USASapna Kuehl, MD, St. Agnes Hospital, MD, USABader Madoukh, MD, Overland Park Regional Medical Center, KS, USASrinivasa Madhavan, MD, Baylor Scott & White Health, TX, USAMahsa Mohebtash, MD, Medstar Union Memorial, MD, USAMarc Mugmon, MD, Medstar Union Memorial, MD, USAEugene Obah, MD, GBMC, MD, USAPhilip Panzarella, MD, Baltimore, MD, USAFarah Salahuddin, MD, UCLA, USAAl Steinman, MD, FACP, St. Joseph Hospital, Denver, USA

Khadija Tayabali, MD, GBMC, MD, USAJennifer Wang, GBMC, MD, USADavid S. Weisman, DO, Medstar Good Samaritan Hospital, MD, USAMaryellen Woodward, Maryland ACP, MD, USA

Included in the board-approved recent changes was the decision to publish research from non-internal medicine programs if there would be substantial interest by the readership. The first such paper was published in volume 9 from a pediatric emergency department in Rochester, New York [1].

As those whom have been following this annual column know, JCHIMP has been indexed in the Clarivate Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) for about 24 months at the time of this writing. This has been long enough that we have likely had our first review of citation activity, and we hope to earn our first official impact factor and inclusion in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) when the 2020 report is released later this year. Our publisher, Taylor & Francis, has been able to provide us with an estimated impact factor dating back to the last 4 years:

As can be seen, there has been a steady increase in the estimated impact factor, and the high quality of our work is increasingly viewed, downloaded, and cited. This past year, the most cited article (and third most downloaded), examined a new contributor to the opioid crisis, kratom [2]. The most downloaded article (and second most cited) examined an intervention to combat provider burnout and its linkage to changes in telomere length [3]. As the dual epidemics of the opioid crisis and provider burnout are dominant themes in the medical literature, this shows that the work of our journal is contributing to the national discussion in a meaningful way.

It was hoped that JCHIMP would be a major factor in the development of a wider core of peer reviewers. This has been greatly successful. 170 individual reviewers participated in 2019, many of whom had not been a peer reviewer previously. We provide guidance to potential reviewers, if needed, to assist in learning this skill [4,5].

Of course, the work of the journal would not be possible without the guidance of the editorial board (Table 3), the phenomenal work of our peer reviewers (Table 4), and the organizational and administrative wizardry of Jen Huff. We thank you all for your dedication to the journal and its mission.

Table 4.

2019 reviewers.

Omar Abdulfattah

Abdullah Sayied Abdullah

Mohammad AbuHishmeh

Manyoo Agarwal

Sharjeel Ahmad

Irfan Ahsan

Shradha Ahuja

Nnabuchi Akpeh

Majd Al Ghatrif

Samer Al Hadidi

Osman Ali

Zahra Aligabi

Richard Alweis

Hussam Ammar

Kartik Anand

Karla Arce

Nobuhiro Ariyoshi

FNU Asa dur Rahman

Anum Asif

Donna Astiz

Faizan Babar

Valentina Baez Sosa

Fred Balis

Reena Bansal

Talha Bashir

Prashanthi Baskaran

Karen Beekman

Shruti Bhandari

Bharat Bhushan

Dolores Buscemi

Lucien Cardinal

Kelly Cervellione

Shan Shan Chen

Thomas Chen

Chester Choi

Dobbin Chow

Arnab Chowdhury

John Cmar

Ricardo Conti

Brianna da Silva

Bhavin Dalal

Ivy Daley

Ranadheer Dande

Pavan Devulapally

Shideh Doroudi

Doantrang Du

Abhiram Duvvuri

Ahmad Ramy Elashery

Emmanuel Elueze

Vamsi Emani

Alex Essenmacher

WuQiang Fan

Beenish Fayyaz

Robert Ferguson

Robert Fick

Andrew Forest

Paul Foster

Andrew Frei

Ethan Fried

Joseph Fuscaldo

Jose Galeas

Sonal Gandhi

George Garriss

Vijay Gayam

Ibrahim Ghobrial

Julieta Gilson

Rukma Govindu

Sunil Goyal

Gaurav Gulati

Ravi Gupta

Charin Hanlon

Che Harris

Hafeez Hassan Virk

Rittu Hingorani

Farnaz Houshmand

Duosha Hu

Chisom Ikeji

Rajasekhar Jagarlamudi

Navkiran Jagdev

Nageshwar Jonnalgadda

Alan Kaell

San Kant

Apurwa Karki

Vineela Kasireddy

Samiha Khan

Mahesh Krishnamurthy

Alexandre Lacasse

Brooke Leachman

Phil Mackowiak

Paul McNabb

Jared Meeker

Hmu Minn

Dimitra Mitsani

Maria Morales

Elaine Muchmore

Nargiz Muganlinskaya

Marc Mugmon

Sadaf Mustafa

Ashutossh Naaraayan

Shreedhar Nagnur

Shivakumar Narayanan

Suresh Kumar Nayudu

Binh Nguyen

Yuliya Nudelman

Fnu Nutan

Jennifer Ogilvie

Vikram Oke

Zahra Pakbaz

Phil Panzarella

Kinnari Parikh

Jorge Pena Garcia

Jimmy Pham

Deidre Pierce

Nazia Qazi

Salil Rajayer

Ashish Rana

Zahra Rezvani

Jaclyn Rivington

Namita Ruhela

Mohsen Saadat

Bruce Sabath

Sanah Sadiq

Amr Salama

Naga Samji

Fardad Sarabchi

Simranjit Sekhon

Siamak Seraj

Syed Shah

Asif Shah

Karn Sharma

Ankita Shashidhar

Gurkeet Singh

Kevin Singh

Jaskeerat Singh

Prabhjit Singh

Rahulkumar Singh

Charanya Sivaramakrishnan

Peter Sloane

David Smith

Sajeet Sohi

David Steinberger

Jeffrey Stroup

Bishnu Subedi

Abubakar Tauseef

Khadija Tayabali

Prashanth Thalanayar

Shauna Thariath

Jayaram Thimmapuram

Craig Thurm

Raghavendra Tirupathi

Jack Tomen

David Tompkins

Rubinder Toor

Nitin Trivedi

Patrick Twohig

Hakim Uqdah

Gopi Krishna Vadlamudi

Usha Venugopal

Avelino Verceles

Olga Vriz

Ahsan Wahab

Abdul Wahab

Christopher Williams

Yin Wu

Manajyoti Yadav

Scott Yen

Eugene York

Jessica Young

James Yu

Muharrem Yunce

Year	Estimated IF
2016	0.410
2017	0.559
2018	0.727
2019	0.989