- Email: [email protected]
Tales of leaving plateaus and scaling new heights!
Sleep Medicine Reviews 18 (2014) 1e2
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Sleep Medicine Reviews journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/smrv
EDITORIAL
Tales of leaving plateaus and scaling new heights! Welcome, dear reader, to Sleep Medicine Reviews (SMR) 18th volume. Yes, another year of high quality publication has come and gone. To start off this volume opening editorial, we wish to heartily thank each and every one of you, our readers. 2013 was another banner year for SMR. SMR 2013 gave you issues focused on; cardiovascular disease and obstructive sleep apnea therapy, sleep and memory, sleep and pain, insomnia with objective short sleep duration, obstructive sleep apnea, sleep in neurotraumatic disorders, and shift work and health. SMR Volume 17 also continued the previous volume’s expansion of each issue to seven reviews and contained: seven guest editorials; 33 clinical reviews, providing the state-of-the-art on a wide range of clinical conditions; six theoretical reviews; two physiological reviews; a technical review; a commentary; and, a letter to the editors. We hope that by now you have downloaded SMR’s dedicated iPad app (http://goo.gl/okJan) and have enjoyed accessing SMR through this new media. If you haven’t yet tried this iPad application, we encourage you to give it a try. 2013 was another highly successful year for SMR because continued the pattern of steady growth in readership and in impact on the field that has marked SMR since its beginnings. Unlike most previous years 2013 saw a continuation of 2012’s plateau in the number of full document downloads via Elsevier’s Sciverse
ScienceDirect platform of SMR reviews by our readers (see Fig. 1). What is exceptionally gratifying is the very high level of SMR materials access this “plateau” represents e an average of 17,000 full document downloads a month. Based on this level of reader access we feel it safe to conclude that we are publishing reviews that our readers find relevant, useful and worth keeping for future reference. We are further gratified to note that there seems to be a rise in downloads beginning in May 2013 similar to that the last time SMR broke out of such a “plateau” in May of 2011. Here’s hoping. SMR’s impact on sleep research on sleep research and sleep medicine continues its remarkable trajectory (see Fig. 2). SMR’s science citation index (SCI) impact factor, a calculation indicating how frequently the average SMR review article is cited in the literature, increased from 6.931 for 2011 to most impressive 8.681 for 2012! SMR’s five year impact factor also rose from 7.543 for 2011 to 8.260 for 2012. A second indicator of SMR’s influence on the field its SCI immediacy index, quantifying how rapidly the average SMR review article is cited in the scientific literature, remained constant from 1.972 for 2011 to 1.943 in 2012. To put these abstract numbers into a real world context: based on its 2012 impact factor, SMR ranked 7th out of the 191 journals in the SCI Clinical Neurology category and 15th out of the 251 journals in the SCI Neurosciences
Fig. 1. Sleep Medicine Reviews 2002e2013 (as of Oct 2013). ScienceDirect online FTAs e All access types
1087-0792/$ e see front matter Ó 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2013.11.001
2
Editorial / Sleep Medicine Reviews 18 (2014) 1e2
Fig. 2. Sleep Medicine Reviews impact factor 2002e2012. Source: ISI TR
category, compared to 10th and 20th in those respective categories in 2011; and, based on immediacy index, SMR ranked 6th and 16th, compared to 5th and 12th in 2011. These data indicate that SMR is well regarded and continues to publish reviews that are widely perceived as containing valuable, very timely and highly citable information. As you might imagine, given these numbers, we happily conclude that SMR is being both widely read and frequently and rapidly cited. This reassures us that SMR remains true to its mission of reaching its target audiences; practitioners of sleep medicine and academic sleep researchers and providing both of them with relevant and state-of-the-art information. We wish to recognize and thank all of those responsible for SMR’s continued success, including; our authors for their fine contributions, our Editorial Board and ad hoc peer reviewers for their efforts ensuring SMR provides its readers with the highest quality review articles, our editorial and production staff at Elsevier, and, of course, you, our readers, for without your continued interest and support SMR could not exist. So what do our readers have to look forward to in SMR Volume 18? First, as you may have noticed in SMR 17:6, we have again expanded the Journal, this time to publish eight reviews per issue while remaining at six issues per volume! We trust our readers will greet this SMR expansion of content as positively as they have previously. Issue 1 opens with a focus on positional obstructive sleep apnea and therapy. Later issues will focus on sleep in the pediatric ICU, insomnia and sleep duration and the metabolic syndrome. In addition to these highlighted review topics SMR will, of course, continue to publish a broad spectrum of clinical,
physiological, theoretical, historical and technical reviews on topics of interest to sleep medicine practitioners and sleep researchers, along with occasional pro and con reviews, commentaries, letters to the editors, and issue-specific guest editorials. We close by inviting you, our readers, to offer suggestions for review topics that you would like to see addressed in SMR, and to offer your comments and opinions on anything that appears in the Journal. Such contributions will be published at our discretion. Please email any suggestions, comments or opinions to us at [email protected] or [email protected]. Finally we wish all of you who come to SMR’s pages useful, informative and thought-provoking reading, and continued success in your clinical and research efforts. Michael V. Vitiello* Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University of Washington, P.O. Box 356560, Seattle, WA 98195-6560, USA Jean Krieger Faculté de Médecine, Université Louis Pasteur, Rue Kirschleger, F-67000 Strasbourg, France E-mail address: [email protected]. * Corresponding
author. Tel.: þ1 206 616 3444; fax: þ1 206 543 9520. E-mail address: [email protected] (M.V. Vitiello). Available online 14 November 2013
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Sleep Medicine Reviews journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/smrv
EDITORIAL
Tales of leaving plateaus and scaling new heights! Welcome, dear reader, to Sleep Medicine Reviews (SMR) 18th volume. Yes, another year of high quality publication has come and gone. To start off this volume opening editorial, we wish to heartily thank each and every one of you, our readers. 2013 was another banner year for SMR. SMR 2013 gave you issues focused on; cardiovascular disease and obstructive sleep apnea therapy, sleep and memory, sleep and pain, insomnia with objective short sleep duration, obstructive sleep apnea, sleep in neurotraumatic disorders, and shift work and health. SMR Volume 17 also continued the previous volume’s expansion of each issue to seven reviews and contained: seven guest editorials; 33 clinical reviews, providing the state-of-the-art on a wide range of clinical conditions; six theoretical reviews; two physiological reviews; a technical review; a commentary; and, a letter to the editors. We hope that by now you have downloaded SMR’s dedicated iPad app (http://goo.gl/okJan) and have enjoyed accessing SMR through this new media. If you haven’t yet tried this iPad application, we encourage you to give it a try. 2013 was another highly successful year for SMR because continued the pattern of steady growth in readership and in impact on the field that has marked SMR since its beginnings. Unlike most previous years 2013 saw a continuation of 2012’s plateau in the number of full document downloads via Elsevier’s Sciverse
ScienceDirect platform of SMR reviews by our readers (see Fig. 1). What is exceptionally gratifying is the very high level of SMR materials access this “plateau” represents e an average of 17,000 full document downloads a month. Based on this level of reader access we feel it safe to conclude that we are publishing reviews that our readers find relevant, useful and worth keeping for future reference. We are further gratified to note that there seems to be a rise in downloads beginning in May 2013 similar to that the last time SMR broke out of such a “plateau” in May of 2011. Here’s hoping. SMR’s impact on sleep research on sleep research and sleep medicine continues its remarkable trajectory (see Fig. 2). SMR’s science citation index (SCI) impact factor, a calculation indicating how frequently the average SMR review article is cited in the literature, increased from 6.931 for 2011 to most impressive 8.681 for 2012! SMR’s five year impact factor also rose from 7.543 for 2011 to 8.260 for 2012. A second indicator of SMR’s influence on the field its SCI immediacy index, quantifying how rapidly the average SMR review article is cited in the scientific literature, remained constant from 1.972 for 2011 to 1.943 in 2012. To put these abstract numbers into a real world context: based on its 2012 impact factor, SMR ranked 7th out of the 191 journals in the SCI Clinical Neurology category and 15th out of the 251 journals in the SCI Neurosciences
Fig. 1. Sleep Medicine Reviews 2002e2013 (as of Oct 2013). ScienceDirect online FTAs e All access types
1087-0792/$ e see front matter Ó 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2013.11.001
2
Editorial / Sleep Medicine Reviews 18 (2014) 1e2
Fig. 2. Sleep Medicine Reviews impact factor 2002e2012. Source: ISI TR
category, compared to 10th and 20th in those respective categories in 2011; and, based on immediacy index, SMR ranked 6th and 16th, compared to 5th and 12th in 2011. These data indicate that SMR is well regarded and continues to publish reviews that are widely perceived as containing valuable, very timely and highly citable information. As you might imagine, given these numbers, we happily conclude that SMR is being both widely read and frequently and rapidly cited. This reassures us that SMR remains true to its mission of reaching its target audiences; practitioners of sleep medicine and academic sleep researchers and providing both of them with relevant and state-of-the-art information. We wish to recognize and thank all of those responsible for SMR’s continued success, including; our authors for their fine contributions, our Editorial Board and ad hoc peer reviewers for their efforts ensuring SMR provides its readers with the highest quality review articles, our editorial and production staff at Elsevier, and, of course, you, our readers, for without your continued interest and support SMR could not exist. So what do our readers have to look forward to in SMR Volume 18? First, as you may have noticed in SMR 17:6, we have again expanded the Journal, this time to publish eight reviews per issue while remaining at six issues per volume! We trust our readers will greet this SMR expansion of content as positively as they have previously. Issue 1 opens with a focus on positional obstructive sleep apnea and therapy. Later issues will focus on sleep in the pediatric ICU, insomnia and sleep duration and the metabolic syndrome. In addition to these highlighted review topics SMR will, of course, continue to publish a broad spectrum of clinical,
physiological, theoretical, historical and technical reviews on topics of interest to sleep medicine practitioners and sleep researchers, along with occasional pro and con reviews, commentaries, letters to the editors, and issue-specific guest editorials. We close by inviting you, our readers, to offer suggestions for review topics that you would like to see addressed in SMR, and to offer your comments and opinions on anything that appears in the Journal. Such contributions will be published at our discretion. Please email any suggestions, comments or opinions to us at [email protected] or [email protected]. Finally we wish all of you who come to SMR’s pages useful, informative and thought-provoking reading, and continued success in your clinical and research efforts. Michael V. Vitiello* Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University of Washington, P.O. Box 356560, Seattle, WA 98195-6560, USA Jean Krieger Faculté de Médecine, Université Louis Pasteur, Rue Kirschleger, F-67000 Strasbourg, France E-mail address: [email protected]. * Corresponding
author. Tel.: þ1 206 616 3444; fax: þ1 206 543 9520. E-mail address: [email protected] (M.V. Vitiello). Available online 14 November 2013