ABSTRACT
We have completed volume 9 of the Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives – JCHIMP. In this perspective piece we discuss the many achievements of our journal, including our impact factor, the diversity of institutions publishing, our editorial board, and the importance of our reviewers.
KEYWORDS: JCHIMP, 9th anniversary, greater baltimore medical center, rochester regional health
Volume 9 of JCHIMP was completed in December 2019. The journal continued to grow and expand as this report will detail. In the 6 issues of volume 9, there was 122 peer-reviewed manuscripts published, an increase of 11% above our previous high in 2016 (Table 1). This brings our total in 9 volumes and 46 issues to 672 manuscripts. Similar expansion was seen in article downloads in 2019 (Figure 1).
Table 1.
JCHIMP # of manuscripts and issues per year.
| Year | No. of manuscripts | No. of issues per year |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 31 | 4 |
| 2012 | 41 | 4 |
| 2013 | 30 | 3 (due to Hiatus) |
| 2014 | 60 | 5 |
| 2015 | 90 | 6 |
| 2016 | 110 | 6 |
| 2017 | 89 | 6 |
| 2018 | 99 | 6 |
| 2019 | 122 | 6 |
Figure 1.
Article downloads.
Our authors in volume 9 came from 69 different institutions, from university and community resources (Table 2) including 7 from outside the USA. Early submissions for volume 10 indicate continued growth.
Table 2.
Institutions published in 2019.
| Abington Jefferson, PA |
| Anne Arundel Medical Center, MD |
| Billings Clinic, MT |
| Brooklyn Hospital Center, NY |
| City of Hope Medical Center, CA |
| Detroit Medical Center, MI |
| Dow University College of Medicine, Pakistan |
| Drexel University/Easton Hospital, PA |
| Easton Hospital, PA |
| Florida Hospital, FL |
| Forest Hills Hospital, NY |
| Fundacion Valle Del Lili, Colombia |
| Greater Baltimore Medical Center, MD |
| Harlem Hospital, NY |
| Hennepin County Medical Center, MN |
| Hurley Medical Center, MI |
| Interfaith Medical Center, NY |
| Jefferson Health, PA |
| Johns Hopkins University, MD |
| Keystone Health, PA |
| Leighton Hospital, UK |
| Long Island Community Hospital, NY |
| Maryland Chapter, American College of Physicians |
| Mayo Clinic Health System, MN |
| McLaren Regional Medical Center, MI |
| MedStar Franklin Square, MD |
| MedStar Harbor Hospital, MD |
| MedStar Good Samaritan, MD |
| MedStar Union Memorial, MD |
| Methodist Health System, TX |
| Mount Sinai-Elmhurst Hospital, NY |
| Oak Hill Hospital, FL |
| Palisades Medical Center, NJ |
| Rapides Regional Medical Center, LA |
| Rawalpindi General Hospital, Pakistan |
| Richmond University Medical Center, NY |
| Riverside University Health System, CA |
| Rochester Regional Health, NY |
| Saba University, Saba |
| Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center, Israel |
| Saint Agnes Hospital, MD |
| St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, MA |
| Saint Francis Medical Center, IL |
| San Joaquin, CA |
| St. Luke’s Hospital, KS |
| St. Mary Mercy, MI |
| St. Mary’s Health Center, MO |
| St. Mary’s Medical Center, CA |
| St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center, WI |
| Suburban Hospital, MD |
| Temple University Hospital, PA |
| Texas Tech University Health Science School of Medicine, TX |
| Tower Health/Reading Hospital, PA |
| Toyohashi Municipal Hospital, Japan |
| Unity Hospital, NY |
| Ulm University Hospital, Germany |
| University of California Riverside, CA |
| Univ. of Central Florida, FL |
| University of Illinois COM @ Peoria, IL |
| University of Kansas Medical Center, KS |
| University of Kentucky, KY |
| University of Maryland, MD |
| University of Maryland Medical Center – Midtown, MD |
| University of Mississippi Medical Center, MS |
| University of North Florida, FL |
| University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis, TN |
| UPNC Pinnacle, PA |
| Yale University School of Medicine, CT |
| Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center, Israel |
Directions for the journal are provided by the CEB (Chimp Editorial Board) which conferences quarterly and includes a widely diverse membership (Table 3). We are extremely pleased that the board now includes Melvin Blanchard, M.D. Dr. Blanchard relocated to Baltimore as chair of medicine at the journal’s home base, Greater Baltimore Medical Center. Dr. Blanchard is past president of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine while based at Washington University in St. Louis where he was the internal medicine residency program director. Dr. Blanchard will be writing on patient safety in volume 10.
Table 3.
Editorial board.
| Editorial TeamRobert P. Ferguson, MD, Editor, Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC)Richard Alweis, MD, Associate Editor, Rochester Regional HealthJeannette Huff, Associate Administrator, Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) |
|
Editorial BoardTalha Bashir, MD, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, NM, USA Melvin Blanchard, MD, GBMC, MD, USALucien Cardinal, MD, Babylon, NY, USAPaul Foster, MD, GBMC, MD, USA Vijay Gayam, Interfaith Medical Center, NY, USA Nowreen Haq, MD, Johns Hopkins Bayview, MD, USASapna Kuehl, MD, St. Agnes Hospital, MD, USA Bader Madoukh, MD, Overland Park Regional Medical Center, KS, USASrinivasa Madhavan, MD, Baylor Scott & White Health, TX, USAMahsa Mohebtash, MD, Medstar Union Memorial, MD, USAMarc Mugmon, MD, Medstar Union Memorial, MD, USAEugene Obah, MD, GBMC, MD, USAPhilip Panzarella, MD, Baltimore, MD, USAFarah Salahuddin, MD, UCLA, USAAl Steinman, MD, FACP, St. Joseph Hospital, Denver, USA |
| Khadija Tayabali, MD, GBMC, MD, USAJennifer Wang, GBMC, MD, USADavid S. Weisman, DO, Medstar Good Samaritan Hospital, MD, USAMaryellen Woodward, Maryland ACP, MD, USA |
Included in the board-approved recent changes was the decision to publish research from non-internal medicine programs if there would be substantial interest by the readership. The first such paper was published in volume 9 from a pediatric emergency department in Rochester, New York [1].
As those whom have been following this annual column know, JCHIMP has been indexed in the Clarivate Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) for about 24 months at the time of this writing. This has been long enough that we have likely had our first review of citation activity, and we hope to earn our first official impact factor and inclusion in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) when the 2020 report is released later this year. Our publisher, Taylor & Francis, has been able to provide us with an estimated impact factor dating back to the last 4 years:
| Year | Estimated IF |
| 2016 | 0.410 |
| 2017 | 0.559 |
| 2018 | 0.727 |
| 2019 | 0.989 |
As can be seen, there has been a steady increase in the estimated impact factor, and the high quality of our work is increasingly viewed, downloaded, and cited. This past year, the most cited article (and third most downloaded), examined a new contributor to the opioid crisis, kratom [2]. The most downloaded article (and second most cited) examined an intervention to combat provider burnout and its linkage to changes in telomere length [3]. As the dual epidemics of the opioid crisis and provider burnout are dominant themes in the medical literature, this shows that the work of our journal is contributing to the national discussion in a meaningful way.
It was hoped that JCHIMP would be a major factor in the development of a wider core of peer reviewers. This has been greatly successful. 170 individual reviewers participated in 2019, many of whom had not been a peer reviewer previously. We provide guidance to potential reviewers, if needed, to assist in learning this skill [4,5].
Of course, the work of the journal would not be possible without the guidance of the editorial board (Table 3), the phenomenal work of our peer reviewers (Table 4), and the organizational and administrative wizardry of Jen Huff. We thank you all for your dedication to the journal and its mission.
Table 4.
2019 reviewers.
| Omar Abdulfattah |
| Abdullah Sayied Abdullah |
| Mohammad AbuHishmeh |
| Manyoo Agarwal |
| Sharjeel Ahmad |
| Irfan Ahsan |
| Shradha Ahuja |
| Nnabuchi Akpeh |
| Majd Al Ghatrif |
| Samer Al Hadidi |
| Osman Ali |
| Zahra Aligabi |
| Richard Alweis |
| Hussam Ammar |
| Kartik Anand |
| Karla Arce |
| Nobuhiro Ariyoshi |
| FNU Asa dur Rahman |
| Anum Asif |
| Donna Astiz |
| Faizan Babar |
| Valentina Baez Sosa |
| Fred Balis |
| Reena Bansal |
| Talha Bashir |
| Prashanthi Baskaran |
| Karen Beekman |
| Shruti Bhandari |
| Bharat Bhushan |
| Dolores Buscemi |
| Lucien Cardinal |
| Kelly Cervellione |
| Shan Shan Chen |
| Thomas Chen |
| Chester Choi |
| Dobbin Chow |
| Arnab Chowdhury |
| John Cmar |
| Ricardo Conti |
| Brianna da Silva |
| Bhavin Dalal |
| Ivy Daley |
| Ranadheer Dande |
| Pavan Devulapally |
| Shideh Doroudi |
| Doantrang Du |
| Abhiram Duvvuri |
| Ahmad Ramy Elashery |
| Emmanuel Elueze |
| Vamsi Emani |
| Alex Essenmacher |
| WuQiang Fan |
| Beenish Fayyaz |
| Robert Ferguson |
| Robert Fick |
| Andrew Forest |
| Paul Foster |
| Andrew Frei |
| Ethan Fried |
| Joseph Fuscaldo |
| Jose Galeas |
| Sonal Gandhi |
| George Garriss |
| Vijay Gayam |
| Ibrahim Ghobrial |
| Julieta Gilson |
| Rukma Govindu |
| Sunil Goyal |
| Gaurav Gulati |
| Ravi Gupta |
| Charin Hanlon |
| Che Harris |
| Hafeez Hassan Virk |
| Rittu Hingorani |
| Farnaz Houshmand |
| Duosha Hu |
| Chisom Ikeji |
| Rajasekhar Jagarlamudi |
| Navkiran Jagdev |
| Nageshwar Jonnalgadda |
| Alan Kaell |
| San Kant |
| Apurwa Karki |
| Vineela Kasireddy |
| Samiha Khan |
| Mahesh Krishnamurthy |
| Alexandre Lacasse |
| Brooke Leachman |
| Phil Mackowiak |
| Paul McNabb |
| Jared Meeker |
| Hmu Minn |
| Dimitra Mitsani |
| Maria Morales |
| Elaine Muchmore |
| Nargiz Muganlinskaya |
| Marc Mugmon |
| Sadaf Mustafa |
| Ashutossh Naaraayan |
| Shreedhar Nagnur |
| Shivakumar Narayanan |
| Suresh Kumar Nayudu |
| Binh Nguyen |
| Yuliya Nudelman |
| Fnu Nutan |
| Jennifer Ogilvie |
| Vikram Oke |
| Zahra Pakbaz |
| Phil Panzarella |
| Kinnari Parikh |
| Jorge Pena Garcia |
| Jimmy Pham |
| Deidre Pierce |
| Nazia Qazi |
| Salil Rajayer |
| Ashish Rana |
| Zahra Rezvani |
| Jaclyn Rivington |
| Namita Ruhela |
| Mohsen Saadat |
| Bruce Sabath |
| Sanah Sadiq |
| Amr Salama |
| Naga Samji |
| Fardad Sarabchi |
| Simranjit Sekhon |
| Siamak Seraj |
| Syed Shah |
| Asif Shah |
| Karn Sharma |
| Ankita Shashidhar |
| Gurkeet Singh |
| Kevin Singh |
| Jaskeerat Singh |
| Prabhjit Singh |
| Rahulkumar Singh |
| Charanya Sivaramakrishnan |
| Peter Sloane |
| David Smith |
| Sajeet Sohi |
| David Steinberger |
| Jeffrey Stroup |
| Bishnu Subedi |
| Abubakar Tauseef |
| Khadija Tayabali |
| Prashanth Thalanayar |
| Shauna Thariath |
| Jayaram Thimmapuram |
| Craig Thurm |
| Raghavendra Tirupathi |
| Jack Tomen |
| David Tompkins |
| Rubinder Toor |
| Nitin Trivedi |
| Patrick Twohig |
| Hakim Uqdah |
| Gopi Krishna Vadlamudi |
| Usha Venugopal |
| Avelino Verceles |
| Olga Vriz |
| Ahsan Wahab |
| Abdul Wahab |
| Christopher Williams |
| Yin Wu |
| Manajyoti Yadav |
| Scott Yen |
| Eugene York |
| Jessica Young |
| James Yu |
| Muharrem Yunce |
Disclosure Statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
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