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Diabetes Care: Building on Strength

I am deeply honored to be taking on the role of editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care . The journal has gone from strength to strength in the last few years, and retaining this momentum toward a higher level will, of course, be a challenge. First, we must acknowledge and thank outgoing editor-in-chief, Mayer B. Davidson, MD, and his team of associate editors and editorial board members for their leadership in making the journal such a tremendous success. In particular, Mayer has steadfastly kept the journal on the right track, leading to it becoming the premier clinical journal addressing the worldwide epidemic of diabetes and its complications. I am particularly grateful for Mayer’s guidance during my previous term as an associate editor and for his outstanding mentorship that prompted me to step into his shoes.

Diabetes Care has grown consistently since its inception in 1978 and has undergone spectacular growth in the last 5 years. This statement is easily supported by statistics comparing the year 2001 with 2005, which were the last available statistics at the time of this writing. The impact factor (a reflection of how often an average article is cited in future publications) grew from 4.9 to 7.8; based on that, Diabetes Care could be ranked 4th out of 89 journals in the fields of endocrinology and metabolism and 10th out of 107 journals in general/internal medicine. Not surprisingly, such success has borne challenges. The number of new submissions grew from 1,157 in 2001 to 2,572 in 2005. To stay within the allocated “page budget,” our acceptance rate has fallen from 40 to 23%.

Obtaining reviewers for the increasing number of submissions has also become a significant challenge. Because of this, a pre-evaluation and priority ranking is made by the editorial committee to determine if a manuscript should be …