Citation:
Collop NA, Quan SF. JCSM 15th anniversary collection. J Clin Sleep Med. 2020;16(suppl_1):1S.
The Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine published its first edition in 2005. Initially a quarterly publication, it has expanded from 22 scientific investigations in its first year of publication to its current number of approximately 20 articles per month. Dr. Stuart Quan was the editor for the first 10 years, with Dr. Nancy Collop taking over that position in 2015. Over the course of the journal’s history, a number of impactful publications have been printed. Some of the most-cited articles are obviously the practice parameters and clinical practice guidelines of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. However, there have been a number of highly cited manuscripts in addition to those important articles.
In this 15th-anniversary collection, we highlight several of those manuscripts. To select the manuscripts, we collated a list of the most-cited and the most-accessed manuscripts with the help of our journal staff. The associate editors were then asked to provide their top 3 choices. Next, those choices were examined for redundancy, and the manuscripts with the highest number of selections were chosen. To round out the 15 selected articles, we selected the frequently cited or accessed manuscripts that highlighted the diversity of clinical sleep medicine, attempting to show the depth of our field and the variety of manuscripts that the journal has published.
Members of our editorial board and associate editors were asked to contribute to this anniversary edition by providing commentaries about the chosen manuscripts that were in their particular area of expertise. The group was overwhelmingly positive about doing so, and as readers will note herein, they did a superb job of describing the selected articles and how they have moved our field forward.
We, the editors, take great pride in what the journal has been able to accomplish in its relatively short tenure and hope that readers will enjoy this special collection of the journal. We also hope that readers’ continued submissions and support of the journal will continue to propel it to new heights in the next 15 years.
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
The authors report no conflicts of interest.