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The AJC in 1987
FROM THE EDITOR
The AJC in 1987
The year 1987 was a good one for the AJC. A total of 2,833 pages for articles (2,810 pages) and letters (23 pages) was published in the 16 regular issues of the AJC in 1987 (Table I). This number represents an increase of 189 pages (7%)‘for articles and letters compared to 1986. In addition to these 2,833 pages, 395 other editorial (i.e., nonadvertising) pages were published in the regular issues in 1987. Of this number, 202 were used for the “contents with abstracts,” and I am pleased to report that the publisher is considering discontinuing this section in July 1988. The publisher also will change the layout of the “contents in brief” in July 1988. The number of articles published in the regular issues in 1987 was 695, an average of 58 each month, and an increase of 79 articles (11%) compared to 1986 (Table I). Each of the 695 articles averaged 4.04 pages in length, a 5 % decrease in average article length compared to the preceding year. Although the percent of articles in each of the various categories in 1987 was roughly similar to what it had been in 1986, the number of articles on systemic hypertension increased to 28
TABLE
I
Number For For For For For For For For
Number
of Pages
and Types
of pages (mean/month) articles (pages/article) letters (number) [no. with replies] staff, editorial board contents in brief contents with abstracts volume indexes information for authors other
Number of articles (mean/month) Coronary artery disease Arrhythmias and conduction Systemic hypertension Congestive heart failure Valvular heart disease Cardiomyopathy Congenital heart disease Miscellaneous Methods Experimental studies Editorials Brief reports Historical studies AJC 25 years ago From-the-editor columns
defects
of Articles
Published
from 10 in the preceding year (Table I). Because systemic hypertension is such a common condition (60 million Americans have it), articles on this subject should, in my view, occupy more than 4% of the articles published. No experimental articles were published in 1987 (except those which could fit into the Brief Report format). I am enormously pleased about how the Brief Reports section of the AJC has developed during the past 5.5 years. This section was initiated in September 1982. In 1983, 65 (80 % ) of the 81 brief reports published were single-case studies (Table II); in 1984, 122 (60 %) of the 204 brief reports published were single-case studies; in 1985, 54% were single-case studies and in 1987 only 34 % of the 203 brief reports published were single-case studies. In 1987, 33 % of the brief reports involved > IO patients and many involved > 100 patients. It is clear that the Brief Reports section of the Journal is no longer a casereport section. To emphasize this change, beginning in April 1988 the reports which include case descriptions will be placed in a new section to be called simply Case Reporfs. The Brief
in the Regular
Issues
of the AJC in 1983 to 1988
1983
1984
1985
3,435 (286) 3,130 (4.87) 27 (53) [40] 15 28 142 79 12 2
3,403 (284) 3,077 (4.12) 36 (80) [38] 15 31 145 69 15 15
3,014 (251) 2,623 (4.07) 21 (40) 1161 17 44 207 70 17 15
643 (54) 132 (21%) 74 (12%) 18 (3%) 22 (3%) 47 (7%) 22 (3%) 79 (12%) 44 (7%) 29 (5%) 52 (8%) 19 (3%) 81 (13%) 2(<1%) 8(1%) 14 (2%)
747 (62) 140 (19%) 76 (10%) 19 (3%) 16 (2%) 37 (5%) 18 (2%) 47 (6%) 41 (5%) 31(4%) 64 (9%) 28 (4%) 204 (27%) 0 11 (2%) 15 (2%)
672
645 (54) 138(21%) 71(11%) 15 (2%) 18 (3%) 29 (5%) 9 (1%) 38 (6%) 41(7%) 21 (3%) 49 (8%) 16 (3%) 172 (27%) 3 (1%) 13 (2%) 12 (2%)
1986 3,004 2,627
1987
(4.26)
17 (40) 16 44 179 86 15 20 616 (51) 153 (25%) 86 (14%) 10 (2%) 21 (3%) 39 (6%) 7 (1%) 34 (6%) 44 (7%) 9 (1%) 4(1%) 21(3%) 160 (26%) 5(1%) 11(2%) 12 (2%)
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3,228 2,810 (4.04) 23 (45) [ 181 16 50 202 101 16 IO 695 (58) 180 (27%) 83 (12%) 28 (4%) 25 (3%) 30 (4%) 14 (2%) 31(4%) 26 (4%) 24 (3%) 0 26 (4%) 203 (29%) 7(1%) S(l%) 12 (2%)
March
TABLE
II
Brief Reports
Ill
Subjects
Number A
January
23
B C D
January 30 March 9 April 24
E
April
F
May 15
G H J A
May 29 June 15 June 30 July 15
B
July 31
C
August
30
of Brief Reports
204 (17) (27%) 308 (26) (10%)
172 (14) (27%) 278 (23) (11%)
160 (13) (26%) 276 (23) (11%)
203 367
1(1%) 65 (80%) 9{11%) 5 (6%) 0 0 l(l%) 0 0 0 183 (1.49) 22 (0.18)
0 122 (60%) 33 (16%) 12 (6%) 8 (4%) 5 (2%) 4(2%) 9 (4%) 3 (1.5%) 7 (3%) 432 (1.40) 56 (0.27)
7 93 18 5 3 6 12 13 6 9 302 57
1 (
7 (:3 % ) 68 (34%) 18 (9%) 10 (!5 % ) 9 (4%) 3 (:2 % ) 21(10%) 23(11%) 15 (8%) 29 (14%) 336 (1.66) 142 (0.70)
Published
in the American
Title Calcium Ion, Cardiac Myocyte, Vascular Smooth Muscle in Hypertension Calcium Antagonists Total lschemic Burden Ramipril-A New Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor Proarrhythmia
Enoximone for Heart Failure
(4%) (54%) (10%) (3%) (2%) (3%) (7%) (8%) (4%) (5%) (1.76) (0.33)
1987 (17) (29%) (31) (13%)
in the AJC 1983 to 1987
Betablockade, Cardioselectivity and Intrinsic Sympathomimetic Activity Doxazosin Pirmenol Nicardipine Cardioprotection in lschemic Heart Disease Restenosis After PTCA 14
673
61
81 (7) (13%) 123 (10) (4%)
1984
81
Day
Volume
1986
Totals
Month,
OF CARDIOLOGY
1985
19 (23%) 15 (19%) 0 0 7 (9%) 7 (9%) 19 (23%) 13 (16%) 0 l(l%) 0
Symposia
JOURNAL
1984
Coronary artery disease Arrhythmias and conduction Systemic hypertension Congestive heart failure Valvular heart disease Cardiomyopathy Miscellaneous topics Congenital heart disease Methods Experimental studies Historical studies
IV
AMERICAN
1983
1983
TABLE
THE
in the AJC 1983 to 1987
No. of reports (no/month) (% of total) No. of pages (no./month) (% of total) No. of patients in each report 0 1 2 3 4 5 6-10 1 l-25 26-50 >50 No. of figures (no./report) No. of tables (no./report)
TABLE
1, 1988
1985
Guest
of Cardiology
26 (15%) 0 2(1%) 17 (10%) 11 (6%) 37 (22%) 34 (20%) 4(2%) 2(1%) 0 172
57 (28 %) 34 (17%) 2(1%) ,4 (2%) 33 (16%) f8 (4%) 28 (14%) 29 (14%) 2(1%) 16 (3%) 0
160
203
in 1987
Pages
19
121
Marion
Eugene Braunwald Attilio Maseri J. Ian S. Robertson
25 7 31
187 38 177
Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Pfizer Laboratories Hoechst AG
Sept. 11-12, 1986 September 14, 1986 May 2-4, 1986
4 5 11
Leonard N. Horowitz Douglas P. Zipes Aram V. Chobanian Stanley H. Taylor
10
56
Berlex
Laboratories
March
14
12
54
Wyeth
Laboratories
Sept.
Klaus Starke H. Just William W. Parmley Desmond Julian
18 12 8 8
104 57 37 41
Pfizer International Warner-Lambert Syntex International ICI Pharmaceuticals
June 7, 1986 December 2, 1985 September 13, 1986 January 18, 1986
11 19 9 18
16
69
June
14
18
90
USCI, Division of G.R. Bard Merrell Dow Research Institute
Spencer
D. Frohlich
B. King,
Karl T. Weber
Ill
Sponsor Laboratories
Date March
of Symposium
Interval (months) Symposium to Publication
Articles
Edward
Editor(s)
1987
25 (16%) 39 (24%) 2(1%) 3 (2%) 22 (14%) 7 (4%) 29 (18%) 27 (17%) 0 3 (2%) 3 (2%)
39 (23%)
33 (16%) 45 (22%) 1 (
Journal
1986
27-29,
1986
9, 1986 28-29,
1986
7, 1986
September
14, 1986
10
8
11
674 TABLE
Number
IV
Symposia
Month,
Day
Published
in the American
Title
D
August
31
E
September
F G
October October
H I
November December
16 14
J
December
28
16 16 30
Beta blockers as AntiArrhythmic Agents Beta Blocker with ISA for Hypertension Moricizine HCI New Approaches to Cardiovascular Therapy Nitroglycerin Hypertension-The Heart and Kidney Behavioral Disorders in Heart Disease
Journal
Guest Joel
of Cardiology in 1987 (cont’d.)
Editor(s)
Morganroth
Articles
Pages
12
67
Sponsor
William
C. Roberts
7
37
Princeton Pharmaceutical Products (Squibb) RhBne-Poulenc Sante
Bernard George
Lown L. Blackburn
14 15
89 93
DuPont Sandoz
Jonathan Edward
Abrams D. Frolich
10 24
48 132
13
79
Sheldon H. Gottlieb Rudolf Hoehn-Saric
Reports will be reserved for major studies that are concise and have only 1 or 2 major points. At least a third of the articles published as Brief Reports were initially submitted as regular length articles but converted to the shorter format. I urge the readership to examine the brief reports more carefully because these reports provide the most information per page of any section in the Journal. The topics of the Brief Reports in 1987 were roughly similar to what they had been in 1986 (Table Ill). The editor particularly welcomes reader reaction to the Brief Reports. And 1987 also was a good year for supplements. A total of 19 supplements was published in the AJC, and they included 279 articles occupying 1,576 pages (Table IV). Some of the more prominent cardiovascular investigators in the world served as guest editors of these supplements. The average interval between the symposium meeting and the publication of the proceedings of the symposium was 12 months. Supple-
Date
of Symposium
December
12-13,1986
April 20, 1985 March 5-6,1987
28 8
W. H. Rorer Marion Laboratories
September April 9-11,
14 8
Upjohn
April
3-4,
1986
8
June
Pharmaceuticals
23-27,
Interval (months) Symposium to Publication
13, 1966 1987 1987
15
9
ments are published, however, within 3 months of receipt of all the manuscripts by the editor. Thus, including both regular issues and supplements a total of 974 articles occupying 4,412 pages was published in the AJC in 1987. At a yearly subscription cost of $66.00, each article in 1987 cost a subscriber <7 pennies and each page for articles and letters, <2 pennies. The subscription cost throughout 1988 will remain the same as in 1987, so the Journal in 1988 should be an even better bargain.
William C. Roberts, Editor-in-Chief
MD
The AJC in 1987
The year 1987 was a good one for the AJC. A total of 2,833 pages for articles (2,810 pages) and letters (23 pages) was published in the 16 regular issues of the AJC in 1987 (Table I). This number represents an increase of 189 pages (7%)‘for articles and letters compared to 1986. In addition to these 2,833 pages, 395 other editorial (i.e., nonadvertising) pages were published in the regular issues in 1987. Of this number, 202 were used for the “contents with abstracts,” and I am pleased to report that the publisher is considering discontinuing this section in July 1988. The publisher also will change the layout of the “contents in brief” in July 1988. The number of articles published in the regular issues in 1987 was 695, an average of 58 each month, and an increase of 79 articles (11%) compared to 1986 (Table I). Each of the 695 articles averaged 4.04 pages in length, a 5 % decrease in average article length compared to the preceding year. Although the percent of articles in each of the various categories in 1987 was roughly similar to what it had been in 1986, the number of articles on systemic hypertension increased to 28
TABLE
I
Number For For For For For For For For
Number
of Pages
and Types
of pages (mean/month) articles (pages/article) letters (number) [no. with replies] staff, editorial board contents in brief contents with abstracts volume indexes information for authors other
Number of articles (mean/month) Coronary artery disease Arrhythmias and conduction Systemic hypertension Congestive heart failure Valvular heart disease Cardiomyopathy Congenital heart disease Miscellaneous Methods Experimental studies Editorials Brief reports Historical studies AJC 25 years ago From-the-editor columns
defects
of Articles
Published
from 10 in the preceding year (Table I). Because systemic hypertension is such a common condition (60 million Americans have it), articles on this subject should, in my view, occupy more than 4% of the articles published. No experimental articles were published in 1987 (except those which could fit into the Brief Report format). I am enormously pleased about how the Brief Reports section of the AJC has developed during the past 5.5 years. This section was initiated in September 1982. In 1983, 65 (80 % ) of the 81 brief reports published were single-case studies (Table II); in 1984, 122 (60 %) of the 204 brief reports published were single-case studies; in 1985, 54% were single-case studies and in 1987 only 34 % of the 203 brief reports published were single-case studies. In 1987, 33 % of the brief reports involved > IO patients and many involved > 100 patients. It is clear that the Brief Reports section of the Journal is no longer a casereport section. To emphasize this change, beginning in April 1988 the reports which include case descriptions will be placed in a new section to be called simply Case Reporfs. The Brief
in the Regular
Issues
of the AJC in 1983 to 1988
1983
1984
1985
3,435 (286) 3,130 (4.87) 27 (53) [40] 15 28 142 79 12 2
3,403 (284) 3,077 (4.12) 36 (80) [38] 15 31 145 69 15 15
3,014 (251) 2,623 (4.07) 21 (40) 1161 17 44 207 70 17 15
643 (54) 132 (21%) 74 (12%) 18 (3%) 22 (3%) 47 (7%) 22 (3%) 79 (12%) 44 (7%) 29 (5%) 52 (8%) 19 (3%) 81 (13%) 2(<1%) 8(1%) 14 (2%)
747 (62) 140 (19%) 76 (10%) 19 (3%) 16 (2%) 37 (5%) 18 (2%) 47 (6%) 41 (5%) 31(4%) 64 (9%) 28 (4%) 204 (27%) 0 11 (2%) 15 (2%)
672
645 (54) 138(21%) 71(11%) 15 (2%) 18 (3%) 29 (5%) 9 (1%) 38 (6%) 41(7%) 21 (3%) 49 (8%) 16 (3%) 172 (27%) 3 (1%) 13 (2%) 12 (2%)
1986 3,004 2,627
1987
(4.26)
17 (40) 16 44 179 86 15 20 616 (51) 153 (25%) 86 (14%) 10 (2%) 21 (3%) 39 (6%) 7 (1%) 34 (6%) 44 (7%) 9 (1%) 4(1%) 21(3%) 160 (26%) 5(1%) 11(2%) 12 (2%)
[sl
3,228 2,810 (4.04) 23 (45) [ 181 16 50 202 101 16 IO 695 (58) 180 (27%) 83 (12%) 28 (4%) 25 (3%) 30 (4%) 14 (2%) 31(4%) 26 (4%) 24 (3%) 0 26 (4%) 203 (29%) 7(1%) S(l%) 12 (2%)
March
TABLE
II
Brief Reports
Ill
Subjects
Number A
January
23
B C D
January 30 March 9 April 24
E
April
F
May 15
G H J A
May 29 June 15 June 30 July 15
B
July 31
C
August
30
of Brief Reports
204 (17) (27%) 308 (26) (10%)
172 (14) (27%) 278 (23) (11%)
160 (13) (26%) 276 (23) (11%)
203 367
1(1%) 65 (80%) 9{11%) 5 (6%) 0 0 l(l%) 0 0 0 183 (1.49) 22 (0.18)
0 122 (60%) 33 (16%) 12 (6%) 8 (4%) 5 (2%) 4(2%) 9 (4%) 3 (1.5%) 7 (3%) 432 (1.40) 56 (0.27)
7 93 18 5 3 6 12 13 6 9 302 57
1 (
7 (:3 % ) 68 (34%) 18 (9%) 10 (!5 % ) 9 (4%) 3 (:2 % ) 21(10%) 23(11%) 15 (8%) 29 (14%) 336 (1.66) 142 (0.70)
Published
in the American
Title Calcium Ion, Cardiac Myocyte, Vascular Smooth Muscle in Hypertension Calcium Antagonists Total lschemic Burden Ramipril-A New Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor Proarrhythmia
Enoximone for Heart Failure
(4%) (54%) (10%) (3%) (2%) (3%) (7%) (8%) (4%) (5%) (1.76) (0.33)
1987 (17) (29%) (31) (13%)
in the AJC 1983 to 1987
Betablockade, Cardioselectivity and Intrinsic Sympathomimetic Activity Doxazosin Pirmenol Nicardipine Cardioprotection in lschemic Heart Disease Restenosis After PTCA 14
673
61
81 (7) (13%) 123 (10) (4%)
1984
81
Day
Volume
1986
Totals
Month,
OF CARDIOLOGY
1985
19 (23%) 15 (19%) 0 0 7 (9%) 7 (9%) 19 (23%) 13 (16%) 0 l(l%) 0
Symposia
JOURNAL
1984
Coronary artery disease Arrhythmias and conduction Systemic hypertension Congestive heart failure Valvular heart disease Cardiomyopathy Miscellaneous topics Congenital heart disease Methods Experimental studies Historical studies
IV
AMERICAN
1983
1983
TABLE
THE
in the AJC 1983 to 1987
No. of reports (no/month) (% of total) No. of pages (no./month) (% of total) No. of patients in each report 0 1 2 3 4 5 6-10 1 l-25 26-50 >50 No. of figures (no./report) No. of tables (no./report)
TABLE
1, 1988
1985
Guest
of Cardiology
26 (15%) 0 2(1%) 17 (10%) 11 (6%) 37 (22%) 34 (20%) 4(2%) 2(1%) 0 172
57 (28 %) 34 (17%) 2(1%) ,4 (2%) 33 (16%) f8 (4%) 28 (14%) 29 (14%) 2(1%) 16 (3%) 0
160
203
in 1987
Pages
19
121
Marion
Eugene Braunwald Attilio Maseri J. Ian S. Robertson
25 7 31
187 38 177
Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Pfizer Laboratories Hoechst AG
Sept. 11-12, 1986 September 14, 1986 May 2-4, 1986
4 5 11
Leonard N. Horowitz Douglas P. Zipes Aram V. Chobanian Stanley H. Taylor
10
56
Berlex
Laboratories
March
14
12
54
Wyeth
Laboratories
Sept.
Klaus Starke H. Just William W. Parmley Desmond Julian
18 12 8 8
104 57 37 41
Pfizer International Warner-Lambert Syntex International ICI Pharmaceuticals
June 7, 1986 December 2, 1985 September 13, 1986 January 18, 1986
11 19 9 18
16
69
June
14
18
90
USCI, Division of G.R. Bard Merrell Dow Research Institute
Spencer
D. Frohlich
B. King,
Karl T. Weber
Ill
Sponsor Laboratories
Date March
of Symposium
Interval (months) Symposium to Publication
Articles
Edward
Editor(s)
1987
25 (16%) 39 (24%) 2(1%) 3 (2%) 22 (14%) 7 (4%) 29 (18%) 27 (17%) 0 3 (2%) 3 (2%)
39 (23%)
33 (16%) 45 (22%) 1 (
Journal
1986
27-29,
1986
9, 1986 28-29,
1986
7, 1986
September
14, 1986
10
8
11
674 TABLE
Number
IV
Symposia
Month,
Day
Published
in the American
Title
D
August
31
E
September
F G
October October
H I
November December
16 14
J
December
28
16 16 30
Beta blockers as AntiArrhythmic Agents Beta Blocker with ISA for Hypertension Moricizine HCI New Approaches to Cardiovascular Therapy Nitroglycerin Hypertension-The Heart and Kidney Behavioral Disorders in Heart Disease
Journal
Guest Joel
of Cardiology in 1987 (cont’d.)
Editor(s)
Morganroth
Articles
Pages
12
67
Sponsor
William
C. Roberts
7
37
Princeton Pharmaceutical Products (Squibb) RhBne-Poulenc Sante
Bernard George
Lown L. Blackburn
14 15
89 93
DuPont Sandoz
Jonathan Edward
Abrams D. Frolich
10 24
48 132
13
79
Sheldon H. Gottlieb Rudolf Hoehn-Saric
Reports will be reserved for major studies that are concise and have only 1 or 2 major points. At least a third of the articles published as Brief Reports were initially submitted as regular length articles but converted to the shorter format. I urge the readership to examine the brief reports more carefully because these reports provide the most information per page of any section in the Journal. The topics of the Brief Reports in 1987 were roughly similar to what they had been in 1986 (Table Ill). The editor particularly welcomes reader reaction to the Brief Reports. And 1987 also was a good year for supplements. A total of 19 supplements was published in the AJC, and they included 279 articles occupying 1,576 pages (Table IV). Some of the more prominent cardiovascular investigators in the world served as guest editors of these supplements. The average interval between the symposium meeting and the publication of the proceedings of the symposium was 12 months. Supple-
Date
of Symposium
December
12-13,1986
April 20, 1985 March 5-6,1987
28 8
W. H. Rorer Marion Laboratories
September April 9-11,
14 8
Upjohn
April
3-4,
1986
8
June
Pharmaceuticals
23-27,
Interval (months) Symposium to Publication
13, 1966 1987 1987
15
9
ments are published, however, within 3 months of receipt of all the manuscripts by the editor. Thus, including both regular issues and supplements a total of 974 articles occupying 4,412 pages was published in the AJC in 1987. At a yearly subscription cost of $66.00, each article in 1987 cost a subscriber <7 pennies and each page for articles and letters, <2 pennies. The subscription cost throughout 1988 will remain the same as in 1987, so the Journal in 1988 should be an even better bargain.
William C. Roberts, Editor-in-Chief
MD