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JAMDA: The Future History of the Journal
JAMDA 15 (2014) 775e779
JAMDA journal homepage: www.jamda.com
Editorial
JAMDA: The Future History of the Journal John E. Morley MB, BCh * Divisions of Geriatric Medicine and Endocrinology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri
This represents the third state of the Journal article which we have published.1,2 The Journal has now settled into its second year of monthly publication. The increase in the number of issues together with the online only publications has led to a major increase in the number of articles published from 91 in 2011 to 178 in 2012. This increased the denominator for calculating the impact factor so the 2013 Impact Factor fell to 4.781 from 5.302 in 2012 (Figure 1). JAMDA had the second highest impact factor of all the clinical geriatric journals and the highest immediacy index (Table 1). Table 2 lists the articles cited 50 or more times since 2011 published in the clinical geriatric journals. The most cited articles in 2011 and 2012 (the years to calculate the impact factor) are listed in Table 3. The major topics covered were sarcopenia, nutrition, diabetes mellitus, falls and the Minimum Data Set 3.0. The 2 sarcopenia consensus conferences have already become citation superstars.3,4 The continuing high quality of the articles in the Journal is shown by the fact that articles published in 2013 have already been highly cited (Table 4). The International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics frailty consensus conference has already been highly cited.5 Articles in 2014 that are already being highly cited include one questioning the definition of frailty,6 use of cognitive stimulation therapy,7 the Asian sarcopenia consensus conference,8 the role of low testosterone and white matter lesions in falls,9,10 and a systematic review on hypertension.11 Despite the increase in submissions, the Journal continues to have a rapid review process of 23 days for the initial review in 2014. Our acceptance rate for original articles is 26%. Seventy-four percent of the Journal’s submissions come from outside the United States (Figure 2). Highest acceptance rates are Switzerland (80%), Hong Kong (57%), Finland (50%), Australia (43.5%), USA (43%), Germany (40%), United Kingdom (36.8%), Spain (35.3%), Canada (33%), France (29.4%), and Taiwan (27.6%). In view of the Journal’s consistent approach to encouraging the development of nursing home research, this is particularly gratifying.12e17 The Journal has, besides covering basic nursing home research, become the major repository for frailty, sarcopenia, polypharmacy,
* Address correspondence to John E. Morley, MB, BCh, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1402 S Grand Blvd, M238, St Louis, MO 63104. E-mail address: [email protected]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2014.09.002 1525-8610/Ó 2014 AMDA e The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
6 5 4 3 2 1 0 2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Fig. 1. Impact factor trend for JAMDA.
falls, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in older persons. Your editors will continue to maintain the balance of general and nursing home specific articles, which we hope is meeting the needs of our readership. In view of the interest in transitions, we have increased the articles we accept in this area. Finally, the editors again thank our reviewers for their timely and well balanced reviews. We remain extremely grateful to the authors from around the world for submitting such high-quality manuscripts. We would like to particularly encourage our readers to submit letters commenting on the published articles or on other issues of general interest to long-term care.
Table 1 Top Clinical Geriatric Journals by Impact Factor Rank
Journal
Impact Factor
Immediacy Index
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
J Gerontol A Biol J Am Med Dir Assoc J Am Geriatr Soc Am J Geriatr Psychiatry Clin Geriatr Med Age Ageing Int J Geriatr Psychiatry Maturitas J Gerontol B Psychol Dement Geriatr Cogn
4.984 4.781 4.216 3.519 3.188 3.107 3.086 2.861 2.852 2.812
0.940 1.483 0.678 1.423 0.267 0.820 0.551 0.547 0.472 0.468
776
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Table 2 Articles Cited More than 50 Times in Clinical Geriatric Journals Since 2011 Rank
First AuthorRef
No.
3
1 2
Fielding RA Fick D18
3 4 5
Miller RA19 Kenny RAM20 Morley JE4
6 7 8 9
Sternberg SA21 Sinclair A22 Tolson D12 Roberts HC23
10
Cooper R24
11 12 13 14 15
Morley JE5 Ouslander JG25 Fitzpatrick AL26 Mather KA27 Fox C28
Subject
No. Citations
Journal
Sarcopenia: Undiagnosed condition AGS Updated Beers Criteria-Inappropriate meds Rapamycin extends life span-Mice AGS/Brit Ger Soc clinical practice guide-Falls Sarcopenia with limited mobility: Int’l consensus Identification of frailty: Systematic review Diabetes Mellitus position statement-IAGG IAGG global agenda for clinical research-NH Measurement-grip strength-Standardized approach Measures-physical capability-Subsequent health Frailty consensus: A call to action Reduce hospitalizations from nursing homes Leukocyte telomere length and mortality Is telomere length a biomarker of aging? Anticholinergic med use-cognitive impairment
230 194
J Am Med Dir Assoc J Am Geriatr Soc
191 120 112
J Gerontol A Biol J Am Geriatr Soc J Am Med Dir Assoc
69 61 61 60
J Am Geriatr Soc J Am Med Dir Assoc J Am Med Dir Assoc Age Ageing
59
Age Ageing
58 54 53 51 50
J J J J J
Am Med Dir Assoc Am Geriatr Soc Gerontol A Biol Gerontol A Biol Am Geriatr Soc
AGS, American Geriatric Society; Brit Ger Soc, British Geriatrics Society; IAGG, International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics; Int’l, international; NH, nursing home.
Table 3 JAMDA’s Most Cited Articles From 2011e2012 Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
First AuthorRef 3
No.
Fielding RA Morley JE4 Sinclair A22 Tolson D12 Tieland M29 Landi F30 Tieland M31 Singh NA32 Spruit MA33 McKinney JD34 Peters LL35 Tamura BK36 van der Maarel-Wierink37 Morley JE38 Cereda E39 Valenzuela T40 Annegarn J41 Morley JE42 Rolland Y43 Neelemaat F44 Demontiero O45 Migdal A46 Philpot C47 Saliba D48 Morley JE49 Burack OR50 Neyens JC51 Vikstedt T52 Saliba D53 Seitz DP54 Carlson MD55 Chen L-K56 Saliba D57 Benetos A58 Bostroem A-M59 Ouslander JG60 Morley JE61 Helton MR62 Cesari M63 Bugat M-ER64
Subject
No. Citations
Sarcopenia-Undiagnosed condition Sarcopenia with limited mobility Diabetes Mellitus-Position statement IAGG global agenda-Clinical research-NH Protein suppl improves physical perf-Frail Sarcopenia and mortality-Older NH res Protein suppl increases muscle mass High-intensity progressive resist trng Predicting outcomes 6-min walk-COPD Vitamin D status and ICU outcomes-vets Groningen frailty indicator-Elderly Medication reduction in a nursing home Aspiration pneumonia-Frail older people Undernutrition: Major problem-NH BMI and mortality in institutionalized Progressive resistance training-NH Problematic activities of daily life-COPD Alzheimer’s Disease: future treatments Screening-malnutrition-SNAQ, MNA Post-discharge nutritional support Supplementation-Vitamin D and Calcium Update on diabetes in elderly and NH res Advanced practice nurses and physicians Revision of the MDS for NH: 3.0 Factors producing falls: Mini-falls assess What matters most: Quality of life in NH Interventions for preventing falls-LTC Nutritional status, energy, protein Testing the PHQ-9 interview-MDS 3.0 Dementia and cognitive impairment-hip fx Strategies-models-Delivering palliative care Diabetes Mellitus, pneumonia LTC Significant changes-MDS version 3.0 Pulse wave velocity-1-y cognitive decline Nutrition status-vets LTC-Canada 7, 30-day readmission SNF to hospital End-of-life care in the nursing home Physician presence in NH-Dementia Sarcopenia: Clinical condition? Detecting frailty in primary care
230 112 61 61 49 49 48 46 45 43 34 28 27 27 27 23 22 22 20 20 20 19 19 18 18 18 18 18 17 17 17 17 16 16 16 16 16 16 15 15
assess, assessment; BMI, body mass index; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; fx, fracture; LTC, long-term care; MDS, Minimum Data Set; MNA, Mini-Nutritional Assessment; NH, nursing home; perf, performance; res, residents; resist trng, resistance training; SNAQ, Simplified Nutritional Appetite questionnaire; SNF, skilled nursing facility; suppl, supplementation; vets, veterans.
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Table 4 Most Cited JAMDA Articles in 2013 First AuthorRef
Rank
5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
No.
Morley JE Malafarina V65 Shimada H66 Morley JE67 Michaud M68 Mijnarends DM69 Bauer J70 Shah R71 Roman D72 Soenen S73 Leenders M74 Little MO75 Yamada M76 Rolland Y77 Tamura BK78 Le Reste JY79 Visschedijk J80 Mir F81 Volicer L82 Khera S83
Subject
No. Citations
Frailty consensus: A call to action Nutritional supplementation-Muscle mass Frailty and mild cognitive impairment Frailty, falls and fractures Proinflammatory cytokines-Aging diseases Tools measure muscle mass, strength, perf Optimal dietary protein intake-Older people Nutrition and diet, Alzheimer disease Sarcopenia: What’s in a name? Body weight, anorexia and undernutrition Type 2 diabetes-Greater decline muscle mass Reducing polypharmacy: QI initiative Prevalence of sarcopenia-Japanese Research can improve care-NH Weight loss, low BMI and malnutrition Definition of multimorbidity-FM-LTC Fear of falling-Pts with hip fracture Anorexia of aging: Decrease undernutrition Apathy and weight loss in NH residents Predict mortality, rehospitalization-syncope
58 17 15 14 13 13 11 10 10 9 9 9 8 8 7 7 7 7 6 6
BMI, body mass index; FM, family medicine; LTC, long-term care; NH, nursing home; perf, performance; pts, patients; QI, quality improvement.
160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0
Fig. 2. JAMDA submissions from the USA and outside September 2013 through August 2014.
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44. Neelemaat F, Bosmons JE, Thijs A, et al. Post-discharge nutritional support in malnourished elderly individuals improves functional limitations. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2011;12:295e301. 45. Demontiero O, Herrmann M, Duque G. Supplementation with vitamin D and calcium in long-term care residents. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2011;12:190e194. 46. Migdal A, Yarandi SS, Smiley D, et al. Update on diabetes in the elderly and in nursing home residents. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2011;12:627e632. 47. Philpot C, Tolson D, Morley JE. Advanced practice nurses and attending physicians: A collaboration to improve quality of care in the nursing home. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2011;12:161e165. 48. Saliba D, Buchanan J. Making the investment count: Revision of the Minimum Data Set for nursing homes, MDS 3.0. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2012;13: 602e610. 49. Morley JE, Rolland Y, Tolson D, et al. Increasing awareness of the factors producing falls: The mini falls assessment. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2012;13: 87e90. 50. 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JAMDA journal homepage: www.jamda.com
Editorial
JAMDA: The Future History of the Journal John E. Morley MB, BCh * Divisions of Geriatric Medicine and Endocrinology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri
This represents the third state of the Journal article which we have published.1,2 The Journal has now settled into its second year of monthly publication. The increase in the number of issues together with the online only publications has led to a major increase in the number of articles published from 91 in 2011 to 178 in 2012. This increased the denominator for calculating the impact factor so the 2013 Impact Factor fell to 4.781 from 5.302 in 2012 (Figure 1). JAMDA had the second highest impact factor of all the clinical geriatric journals and the highest immediacy index (Table 1). Table 2 lists the articles cited 50 or more times since 2011 published in the clinical geriatric journals. The most cited articles in 2011 and 2012 (the years to calculate the impact factor) are listed in Table 3. The major topics covered were sarcopenia, nutrition, diabetes mellitus, falls and the Minimum Data Set 3.0. The 2 sarcopenia consensus conferences have already become citation superstars.3,4 The continuing high quality of the articles in the Journal is shown by the fact that articles published in 2013 have already been highly cited (Table 4). The International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics frailty consensus conference has already been highly cited.5 Articles in 2014 that are already being highly cited include one questioning the definition of frailty,6 use of cognitive stimulation therapy,7 the Asian sarcopenia consensus conference,8 the role of low testosterone and white matter lesions in falls,9,10 and a systematic review on hypertension.11 Despite the increase in submissions, the Journal continues to have a rapid review process of 23 days for the initial review in 2014. Our acceptance rate for original articles is 26%. Seventy-four percent of the Journal’s submissions come from outside the United States (Figure 2). Highest acceptance rates are Switzerland (80%), Hong Kong (57%), Finland (50%), Australia (43.5%), USA (43%), Germany (40%), United Kingdom (36.8%), Spain (35.3%), Canada (33%), France (29.4%), and Taiwan (27.6%). In view of the Journal’s consistent approach to encouraging the development of nursing home research, this is particularly gratifying.12e17 The Journal has, besides covering basic nursing home research, become the major repository for frailty, sarcopenia, polypharmacy,
* Address correspondence to John E. Morley, MB, BCh, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1402 S Grand Blvd, M238, St Louis, MO 63104. E-mail address: [email protected]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2014.09.002 1525-8610/Ó 2014 AMDA e The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
6 5 4 3 2 1 0 2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Fig. 1. Impact factor trend for JAMDA.
falls, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in older persons. Your editors will continue to maintain the balance of general and nursing home specific articles, which we hope is meeting the needs of our readership. In view of the interest in transitions, we have increased the articles we accept in this area. Finally, the editors again thank our reviewers for their timely and well balanced reviews. We remain extremely grateful to the authors from around the world for submitting such high-quality manuscripts. We would like to particularly encourage our readers to submit letters commenting on the published articles or on other issues of general interest to long-term care.
Table 1 Top Clinical Geriatric Journals by Impact Factor Rank
Journal
Impact Factor
Immediacy Index
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
J Gerontol A Biol J Am Med Dir Assoc J Am Geriatr Soc Am J Geriatr Psychiatry Clin Geriatr Med Age Ageing Int J Geriatr Psychiatry Maturitas J Gerontol B Psychol Dement Geriatr Cogn
4.984 4.781 4.216 3.519 3.188 3.107 3.086 2.861 2.852 2.812
0.940 1.483 0.678 1.423 0.267 0.820 0.551 0.547 0.472 0.468
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Table 2 Articles Cited More than 50 Times in Clinical Geriatric Journals Since 2011 Rank
First AuthorRef
No.
3
1 2
Fielding RA Fick D18
3 4 5
Miller RA19 Kenny RAM20 Morley JE4
6 7 8 9
Sternberg SA21 Sinclair A22 Tolson D12 Roberts HC23
10
Cooper R24
11 12 13 14 15
Morley JE5 Ouslander JG25 Fitzpatrick AL26 Mather KA27 Fox C28
Subject
No. Citations
Journal
Sarcopenia: Undiagnosed condition AGS Updated Beers Criteria-Inappropriate meds Rapamycin extends life span-Mice AGS/Brit Ger Soc clinical practice guide-Falls Sarcopenia with limited mobility: Int’l consensus Identification of frailty: Systematic review Diabetes Mellitus position statement-IAGG IAGG global agenda for clinical research-NH Measurement-grip strength-Standardized approach Measures-physical capability-Subsequent health Frailty consensus: A call to action Reduce hospitalizations from nursing homes Leukocyte telomere length and mortality Is telomere length a biomarker of aging? Anticholinergic med use-cognitive impairment
230 194
J Am Med Dir Assoc J Am Geriatr Soc
191 120 112
J Gerontol A Biol J Am Geriatr Soc J Am Med Dir Assoc
69 61 61 60
J Am Geriatr Soc J Am Med Dir Assoc J Am Med Dir Assoc Age Ageing
59
Age Ageing
58 54 53 51 50
J J J J J
Am Med Dir Assoc Am Geriatr Soc Gerontol A Biol Gerontol A Biol Am Geriatr Soc
AGS, American Geriatric Society; Brit Ger Soc, British Geriatrics Society; IAGG, International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics; Int’l, international; NH, nursing home.
Table 3 JAMDA’s Most Cited Articles From 2011e2012 Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
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Fielding RA Morley JE4 Sinclair A22 Tolson D12 Tieland M29 Landi F30 Tieland M31 Singh NA32 Spruit MA33 McKinney JD34 Peters LL35 Tamura BK36 van der Maarel-Wierink37 Morley JE38 Cereda E39 Valenzuela T40 Annegarn J41 Morley JE42 Rolland Y43 Neelemaat F44 Demontiero O45 Migdal A46 Philpot C47 Saliba D48 Morley JE49 Burack OR50 Neyens JC51 Vikstedt T52 Saliba D53 Seitz DP54 Carlson MD55 Chen L-K56 Saliba D57 Benetos A58 Bostroem A-M59 Ouslander JG60 Morley JE61 Helton MR62 Cesari M63 Bugat M-ER64
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Sarcopenia-Undiagnosed condition Sarcopenia with limited mobility Diabetes Mellitus-Position statement IAGG global agenda-Clinical research-NH Protein suppl improves physical perf-Frail Sarcopenia and mortality-Older NH res Protein suppl increases muscle mass High-intensity progressive resist trng Predicting outcomes 6-min walk-COPD Vitamin D status and ICU outcomes-vets Groningen frailty indicator-Elderly Medication reduction in a nursing home Aspiration pneumonia-Frail older people Undernutrition: Major problem-NH BMI and mortality in institutionalized Progressive resistance training-NH Problematic activities of daily life-COPD Alzheimer’s Disease: future treatments Screening-malnutrition-SNAQ, MNA Post-discharge nutritional support Supplementation-Vitamin D and Calcium Update on diabetes in elderly and NH res Advanced practice nurses and physicians Revision of the MDS for NH: 3.0 Factors producing falls: Mini-falls assess What matters most: Quality of life in NH Interventions for preventing falls-LTC Nutritional status, energy, protein Testing the PHQ-9 interview-MDS 3.0 Dementia and cognitive impairment-hip fx Strategies-models-Delivering palliative care Diabetes Mellitus, pneumonia LTC Significant changes-MDS version 3.0 Pulse wave velocity-1-y cognitive decline Nutrition status-vets LTC-Canada 7, 30-day readmission SNF to hospital End-of-life care in the nursing home Physician presence in NH-Dementia Sarcopenia: Clinical condition? Detecting frailty in primary care
230 112 61 61 49 49 48 46 45 43 34 28 27 27 27 23 22 22 20 20 20 19 19 18 18 18 18 18 17 17 17 17 16 16 16 16 16 16 15 15
assess, assessment; BMI, body mass index; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; fx, fracture; LTC, long-term care; MDS, Minimum Data Set; MNA, Mini-Nutritional Assessment; NH, nursing home; perf, performance; res, residents; resist trng, resistance training; SNAQ, Simplified Nutritional Appetite questionnaire; SNF, skilled nursing facility; suppl, supplementation; vets, veterans.
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Table 4 Most Cited JAMDA Articles in 2013 First AuthorRef
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Morley JE Malafarina V65 Shimada H66 Morley JE67 Michaud M68 Mijnarends DM69 Bauer J70 Shah R71 Roman D72 Soenen S73 Leenders M74 Little MO75 Yamada M76 Rolland Y77 Tamura BK78 Le Reste JY79 Visschedijk J80 Mir F81 Volicer L82 Khera S83
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Frailty consensus: A call to action Nutritional supplementation-Muscle mass Frailty and mild cognitive impairment Frailty, falls and fractures Proinflammatory cytokines-Aging diseases Tools measure muscle mass, strength, perf Optimal dietary protein intake-Older people Nutrition and diet, Alzheimer disease Sarcopenia: What’s in a name? Body weight, anorexia and undernutrition Type 2 diabetes-Greater decline muscle mass Reducing polypharmacy: QI initiative Prevalence of sarcopenia-Japanese Research can improve care-NH Weight loss, low BMI and malnutrition Definition of multimorbidity-FM-LTC Fear of falling-Pts with hip fracture Anorexia of aging: Decrease undernutrition Apathy and weight loss in NH residents Predict mortality, rehospitalization-syncope
58 17 15 14 13 13 11 10 10 9 9 9 8 8 7 7 7 7 6 6
BMI, body mass index; FM, family medicine; LTC, long-term care; NH, nursing home; perf, performance; pts, patients; QI, quality improvement.
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Fig. 2. JAMDA submissions from the USA and outside September 2013 through August 2014.
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