Abstract
JCHIMP's Editor-in-Chief and a member of the Editorial Board acknowledge the importance of authors and peer reviewers to the success of JCHIMP in 2024. They discuss the value of peer review and how it satisfies ACGME directives for scholarship. Publication costs, and sources for publication funding are also examined.
Keywords: Peer review, ACGME scholarly activity, Cost of publications
In this anniversary issue we reserve an article to acknowledge our many contributing authors and peer reviewers. Peer review, especially, remains an often time unacknowledged activity, that is necessary and vital to the performance of any medical journal.
Peer review can contribute to the development of scholarly practices and can be easily documented. This is important because insufficient scholarly activity has been and continues to be a frequent cause of program citation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). At the 2025 meeting of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine conference (AIMW) in New Orleans, they highlighted that the top ACGME citation received by new programs (<5 years old) is insufficient scholarly activity.
Both peer reviewing and the publication of articles provide strong documentation of scholarship and help to prevent citations during review. ACGME program requirements list numerous examples of how the above activities can contribute to scholarly activities (Fig. 1) to help meet their criteria.1,2 Despite this, peer reviewing is often overlooked as an important contributing activity to demonstrate scholarly activity. Publication of case reports and review articles are also important activities to consider in this regard. Publication should generally be in a journal recognized by the National Library of Medicine, documented by the receipt of a PubMed ID as we are at JCHIMP.3 At the AIMW conference, many other good ideas for demonstrating scholarly activity were discussed. These include: creating an institutional research day, partnering with neighboring programs for a regional research day, and encouraging the participation of residents in the state chapter of the American College of Physicians.
Fig. 1.
Journal-related activities that can be used to demonstrate scholarly activity requirements.1
Peer review activities benefit residents and faculty by encouraging evidence-based, literature-oriented discussions that facilitate an environment of inquiry. And, peer reviewing is ideal for busy physicians because it allows flexible time management. Most journals utilize automated net-based applications to disseminate articles for review. Reviewers have an option to accept or reject the offered review, based on whether their interest or schedule permits. Once the reviewer accepts the article for review, there is an allowed period of about 2 weeks to complete it. Editors rely on physician peer reviewing as a necessary component of the publication process. It helps to ensure quality and provides constructive feedback to authors. Knowledge and training for peer review can be had via published articles and online training.4–6
The preparation of case reports and review articles for publication is a time-honored method of demonstrating clinical excellence. It can foster a mentor relationship as the resident is often assisted and guided by experienced faculty. Cost of publication is certainly a concern for authors and institutions. A 2023 review of a selection of medical journals documented none below $550.7 Although creative sources for obtaining funding can be explored, many educational programs struggle to get funding allocated to publications fees. Yet many authors decide to pay the cost of publication. When there are several co-authors, the individual cost may be reduced to less than $200. Publication may be that extra something that becomes a factor in being selected for a desired subspecialty fellowship. Consistent with a universal impulse to document achievement through publication, a review of JCHIMP statistics demonstrates that published papers arise from a wide variety of institutions as demonstrated in Table 1.
Table 1.
List of 2024 Institutions published.
| Abington Memorial Hospital, PA |
| Allegheny General Hospital, PA |
| Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, MD |
| BronxCare Health System, NY |
| Brookhaven Memorial Hospital, NY |
| Brooklyn Hospital Center, NY |
| CAMC: Charleston Area Medical Center, WV |
| Capital Health Regional Medical College, NJ |
| Carney Hospital, ME |
| Charleston Area Medical Center, WV |
| Cleveland Clinic Main Campus Hospital, OH |
| Crawfurd Hospital, SINGAPORE |
| Drexel University College of Medicine, PA |
| Fatima Jinnah Medical University, PAKISTAN |
| Florida State University College of Medicine, Fl |
| Franciscan Health Olympian Fields, TX |
| Fujita Health University, JAPAN |
| Greater Baltimore Medical Center, MD |
| Hackensack Meridian Health, NJ |
| Hazrat-e Rasool General Hospital, IRAN |
| HCA Florida Healthcare, FL |
| HCA South Atlantic Division, SC |
| HCA West Florida Division, FL |
| Ibn Seena Teaching Hospital, AFGHANISTAN |
| Jawaharlal Institute, INDIA |
| Kaiser Permanente, MD |
| KEM Hospital and Seth G S Medical College, INDIA |
| Khyber Medical University, PAKISTAN |
| Lakeland Health, MI |
| Maimonides Medical Center, NY |
| Mayo Clinic Division of General Internal Medicine, MN |
| Mayo Clinic Florida, FL |
| McLaren Flint Hospital, MI |
| MEDISYS Health Network, NY |
| MedStar Health, MD |
| MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, MD |
| Mohammed VI University Hospital Marrakech, MORROCO |
| Monmouth Medical Center, NJ |
| Mountain View Hospital, NV |
| Naples Community Hospital Healthcare System, FL |
| Nassau University Medical Center, NY |
| Nerima Hikarigaoka Hospital, JAPAN |
| North Alabama Medical Center, AL |
| Palisades Medical Center, NJ |
| Reading Health System, PA |
| Saint Joseph Medical Center, NJ |
| Shifa College of Medicine, PAKISTAN |
| SMT NHL Municipal Medical College, INDIA |
| Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, IL |
| St Joseph's University Medical Center, NJ |
| St Luke's University Health Network, PA |
| St Mary's Health Center, MO |
| Tehran University of Medical Science, IRAN |
| Temple University Hospital, PA |
| Trident Medical Center, SC |
| Trinitas Regional Medical Center, NJ |
| UCI Medical Center, CA |
| United Health Services Hospital, NY |
| Unity Hospital, NY |
| University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria, IL |
| University of New Mexico, NM |
| University of California Riverside School of Medicine, CA |
| University of Central Florida, FL |
| University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus, MD |
| University of Maryland Medical Center, MD |
| University of Michigan, MI |
| University of South Dakota - Sanford, SD |
| University of Tennessee, TN |
| UTHSC College of Medicine Memphis, TN |
| WellSpan York Hospital, PA |
| West Virginia University School of Medicine, WV |
| Wiener Gesundheitsverbund Klinik Landstrasse, AUSTRIA |
| Ziv Medical Center, ISRAEL |
JCHIMP's academic value rests on its authors and its evaluation process relies on its peer reviewers. We would like to recognize them both for their contribution and support. Our 2024 peer reviewers are cited in Table 2.
Table 2.
List of 2024 peer reviewers.
| Abdullah Masood |
| Abinhav Vyas |
| Adnan Ghias |
| Ahmad Sayeed |
| Akhil Jain |
| Akram Eraky |
| Alaa Diab |
| Alan Kaell |
| Alex Essenmacher |
| Allison Karwoski |
| Alok Shetty |
| Amanda Ward |
| Ameerdad Khan |
| Amit Dey |
| Amna Anees |
| Andrew Frei |
| Anish Kumar Shrestha |
| Anshuk Kakria |
| Anusha Kanagala |
| Arafat Ali Farooqui |
| Arun Sendilnathan |
| Ashish Rana |
| Auda H Auda |
| Basil Verghese |
| Beenish Fayyaz |
| Bharat Bhushan |
| Biplov Adhikari |
| Bishnu Subedi |
| Brianna da Silva Bhatia |
| Celeste Charchenko |
| Chahat Puri |
| Charin Hanlon |
| Che Harris |
| Chester Choi |
| Christopher Williams |
| Dania Kaur |
| Darrell Downs |
| David Gemmel |
| David Weisman |
| Dawood Shehzad |
| Dennis Morozov |
| Dimitra Mitsani |
| Doantrang Du |
| Donald Slack |
| Duncan Vincent |
| Duosha Hu |
| Edward Lovering |
| Elisabeth Carr |
| Elizabeth Mikhail |
| Erika Leung |
| Ethan Fried |
| Fardad Sarabchi |
| Fatima Halilu |
| FNU Anamika |
| Gopi Vadlamudi |
| Guo Cheng |
| Gurpreet Kaur Saini |
| Gurpreet Saini |
| Hakim Uqdah |
| Harsh Patel |
| Hassan Qadir |
| Hesham Nasser |
| Hmu Minn |
| Hoang-Thien Cao |
| Hongli Liu |
| Hussam Ammar |
| Ibrahim Ghobrial |
| Ionica Pirici |
| Isitri Modak |
| Islam M Rajab |
| Jafar Shabanpour |
| Janaki Deepak |
| Jason Lynch |
| Jayaram Thimmapuram |
| Jennifer Ann Evans |
| Jennifer Evans |
| Jeremy Ellis |
| Jessica Ohemeng-Dapaah |
| Jessica Palmer |
| Jessica Young |
| Jisun Won |
| John Cmar |
| Jorge Garcia |
| Joseph Fuscaldo |
| Kiran Kommaraju |
| Lauren Sands |
| Leonard Wang |
| Lucien Cardinal |
| M Kenan Rahima |
| Maham Zahid |
| Mahesh Krishnamurthy |
| Mahyar Toofantabrizi |
| Manajyoti Yadav |
| Manasa Kandula |
| Manzoor Rather |
| Marc Mugmon |
| Marita Mike |
| Mark Colantonio |
| Maryam Jahromi |
| Maryam Sadiq |
| Maya Silver |
| Mayuri Patel |
| Meherwan Joshi |
| Melissa Scalise |
| Melvin Blanchard |
| Mohammad Khadembashiri |
| Mohammad Rezazadeh |
| Mohammed Rifat Shaik |
| Mohankumar Doraiwamy |
| Mohsen Saadat |
| Mrinmayee Naik |
| Muhammad Mohsin Abid |
| Nadim Jaafar |
| Nadim Ojaimi |
| Nazmul Hasan |
| Neha Bapat |
| Nicholas Spetsieris |
| Nnabuchi Anikpezie |
| Oleg Kibukevich |
| Omar Abdulfattah |
| Pankti Desai |
| PARITHARSH GHANTASALA |
| Patrick Ching |
| Pauline Richards |
| Pavan Devulapally |
| Phani Cherukuri |
| Phil Panzarella |
| Pinak Shah |
| Prabhjit Singh |
| Praneet Iyer |
| Prashanth Yella |
| Preeti Misra |
| Preyaah Tharumalingam |
| Priyanga Jayakumar |
| Rahul Bhiote |
| Raja Ayash |
| Rajasekhar Tanikella |
| Raji Grewal |
| Rama Kalas |
| Ramesh Khurana |
| Ranadheer Dande |
| Ravi Gupta |
| Reena Bansal |
| Ricardo Conti |
| Richard Alweis |
| Ripudaman Munjal |
| Rishika Sharma |
| Robert Chow |
| Robert Kornberg |
| Roop Parlapalli |
| Rukma Govindu |
| Rutwik Sharma |
| Ryan Zimmerman |
| Sadaf Mustafa |
| Sadaf Parvin |
| Sahayini Kumar |
| Sahib Singh |
| Saint-Martin Allihien |
| Salil Rajayer |
| Sanah Sadiq |
| Sandesh Murali |
| Sangeetha Tandalam |
| Sanya Chandna |
| Sapna Kuehl |
| Sathish Krishnan |
| Scarlet Louis-Jean |
| Scott Yen |
| Sena Choi |
| Shaikh Iqbal |
| Sharjeel Ahmad |
| Shemrine Mark |
| Shreedhar Nagnur |
| Shweta Warner |
| Simran Singh |
| Siva Yarrarapu |
| Stefan David |
| Stephanie Wappel |
| Suma Chennapragada |
| Sumanth Bandaru |
| Sunil Goyal |
| Surendra Marur |
| Susan Arnold |
| Sushmita Prabhu |
| Suzanne Martin |
| Swaroopa Nalamalapu |
| Tanveer Shaik |
| Tanvi Jain |
| Tanvir Shaik |
| Tharun Shyam |
| Thein Oo |
| Thomas Chen |
| Timothy Ryan |
| Tirumala Dammalapati |
| Tracey Doering |
| Tristan Flack |
| Turel Turan |
| Utku Ekin |
| Valentina Baez Sosa |
| Victor Kolade |
| Vijayalakshmi Brahmashettar |
| Vikram Sangani |
| Yani Zhang |
| Yasir Ahmed |
| Youssef Soliman |
| Yuliya Nudelman |
| Yuta Yoshino |
| Yvette Yeboah-Kordieh |
| Zenobia JonesFoster |
| Zhongju Lu |
| Zubair Bodla |
JCHIMP's popularity continues to grow. In the past year, we have seen more than 40,000 downloads in the United States of America, and more than 1000 downloads, each, originating from every one of the other major continents, as demonstrated in Fig. 2. JCHIMP is a growing global publication and we are proud of its performance and development.
Fig. 2.
2024 article download map.
References
- 1.ACGME program requirements for graduate medical education in internal medicine, effective July 1, 2025. Accreditation Committee for Graduate Medical Education; [Accessed July 26, 2025]. Published September 30, 2024 https://inte2.acgme.org/globalassets/pfassets/programrequirements/2025-reformatted-requirements/140_internalmedicine_2025_reformatted.pdf. [Google Scholar]
- 2.Chaloupek M. Common ACGME citations and how to avoid them workshop. University of Florida College of Medicine Graduate Medical Education; [Accessed July 26, 2025]. Published August 13, 2020. https://gme.med.ufl.edu/wordpress/files/2020/08/2020-8-13-ACGME-Citations-and-how-to-avoid-them-FINAL.pdf . [Google Scholar]
- 3. Scholarly activity in the next accreditation system: moving from structure and process to outcomes. J Grad Med Educ. 2013 Dec;5(4):714–717. doi: 10.4300/JGME-05-04-43. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- 4. Allen L, Ho PM. Peer review of a manuscript submission: a How-To guide for effective and efficient commentary. [Accessed July 14, 2025]; Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 10(12) doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.117.004446. Published December 13, 2017. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.117.004446 . [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- 5.Navigating Peer Review Elsevier. Researcher Academy; [Accessed July 14, 2025]. https://researcheracademy.elsevier.com/navigating-peer-review . [Google Scholar]
- 6.Excellence in Peer Review. Taylor and Francis Reviewer Training Network. [Accessed July 14, 2025]. https://editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ARN0151_excellence-in-peer-review-review-checklist_final.pdf .
- 7.Case reports: where to publish case reports Himmelfarb health sciences library. George Washington University; [Accessed July 14, 2025]. https://guides.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/casereports . [Google Scholar]