Scientific publications gathers authors, reviewers, referees, and editors around a common platform. These journals prepare a suitable scientific media for its academicians, and researchers. These publications are obliged to offer innovative, and sophisticated information of highest quality to their readers, research institutes, and associations. These information are firstly subjected to meticulous elimination process, then sent to experienced reviewers for their objective evaluations.
In line with changes in the world of science, rules, and conditions of the scientific publications also evolve. In addition to facilities provided by the digital era, unique, and optimal arrangements should be made to be able to keep up with tremendously faster transfer of knowledge. Obviously, monthly publication of The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology in the year 2015 will increase our workload by 33%, so we should make the same modifications in our manuscript processing rate, and decision-making process.
With the updated assignments and responsibilities, the acceptability of The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology in the world of medicine, is incessantly, and seriously increasing. Despite the issuing of the journal as a monthly periodical, due to the constantly increasing paper submission rate, the rejection rate of the submitted manuscripts by Editor-in-Chief, associate editors, and consultants will eventually increase. Although there are monthly variations, in accordance with the escalating quantity and quality of the submitted manuscripts, our journal is clicked almost 5000 times in the Pubmed database.
We are frequently bringing the emergent problems, and new conditions to be implemented to the table so as to meet the expectations of the academicians, and wishes of the responsible publishers, and authors, and encourage investigators. Though we perform annual evaluations during the period of National Congresses, I am benefiting greatly from regional meetings, participation of our publisher, and dialogues with associate editors with the intention to share my so-called sins, and good deeds. The most important item of the agenda in 21 December meeting organized in Istanbul, was approval of the great modification made in the section of “Instruction for Authors”. Still a problem which we can’t prevent its occurrence is that investigators submit their manuscripts without reading the section “Instructions for Authors”. Manuscript acceptance formats which differ slightly between journals still continue to be the most important reason for delays in publications, and rejections.
Innovations in the office organization of the AVES publication company, and increasing number of secreteriats of the Editor-in-Chief to 3 highly secretaries have been the fundamental motivation especially promoting our associate editors to work faster, harder, and more efficiently. Increase in this rapport, has decreased average duration of the manuscript acceptance-rejection process down to 60 days, and receival of a DOI number after acceptance of the manuscript decreased to 10 days. This year the abovementioned time periods have decreased down to one fourth of the previous year. Incidentally, a very important journal in the field of cardiovascular medicine has attracted my attention. Editorial board of this journal is accepting a manuscript 10 months after its submission. It is receiving a DOI number 2 months after the acceptance of the manuscript, and releasing its harcopy one of two months later. Although such a comparison is not very appropriate, The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology has achieved a pace beyond the expectations of our researchers with confidence, and reality. The final remark on this issue: 2015 January, and February issues of the Journal are almost ready for publication. The contents of March-October issues were determined in previous months, and their “ahead of print” preparation will be terminated in near future. I selected the contents of the November, and December issues of the Journal last week. For the year 2015 the job is done, for 2016 God is great! I am sorry for the academicians whose manuscripts returned because couldn’t print them preferentially.
When you screened the indices, you see nearly 700 prestigious cardiovascular periodicals. Among them presumably 125 journals are on top of the indexed journals. However their titles, and “cited” acronyms are in English, excluding one or two periodicals. This fact has led us to a reality which we discussed long time ago, and evaluated repetitively. At the end of the long, and tedious meetings with associate editor, and consultants or even Turkish Society of Cardiology authorities, in indices of The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology only its English title, and cited abbreviation (Anatolian J Cardiol) of the journal will be placed. Attention! Thus, we aimed to better keep up with the international media.