Note From the Editor

This year, we are again pleased to present our annual Highlights issue of Arthroplasty Today. The journal is open access, follows an article-based published model, such that articles are immediately available online, and is indexed in PubMed Central. This year, we will apply for Clarivate indexing, a remarkable milestone which will allow us to be included in the Web of Science. Our CiteScore is now 1.9, with a progressive upward trend. We compile one print issue each year to distribute at the annual American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons meeting, thanks to the support of our sponsors and Elsevier. The articles chosen for this issue were selected by input from our editorial board and include representative articles of each type we publish. I hope you will take the time to peruse the issue, as it represents the collective opinions of our editorial board regarding which articles Arthroplasty Today published in the last year have been the most impactful in each category.

Brian J. McGrory, MD, MS, Editor Emeritus, had the vision to recognize the instructive value of case reports; as such, one of the initial intents of Arthroplasty Today was to provide a platform for their publication. The case reports selected for this Highlights issue all illustrate the potential adverse consequences of modularity [[1], [2], [3]]. The 2 surgical technique articles we chose are particularly practical, simple techniques that practicing surgeons can readily adapt to their practices [4, 5]. We chose a systematic review on dental prophylaxis, which is a frequent clinical question we encounter in office practice [6]. We have also included a summary article from the 2020 annual report of the American Joint Replacement Registry, for surgeons to review and reference [7]. The remaining articles are representative manuscripts addressing topics of current interest to our readers in the arthroplasty community. I encourage you to read and share the articles in this issue with your peers, learners, and team members to facilitate team learning [8].

Arthroplasty Today is committed to diversity and inclusion. We have actively sought out editorial board members from a range of demographic categories and geographic regions worldwide, and we will continue to recruit diverse, talented reviewers and editorial board members. We encourage submissions from international authors and can offer publication fee waivers to authors from emerging nations. In addition, Elsevier has numerous agreements with institutions around the United States and throughout the world to facilitate open access publication. We believe open access is the future of scientific publication and are grateful that these agreements are in place.

Ensuring timely and quality peer review and shortening the time to final decision are of paramount importance to authors. Our goal is to give authors thorough, tangible feedback to ensure that published articles are of the highest possible quality. To augment and streamline our review and decision process, we have recently integrated our Associate Editors in the review process. After initial screening, submissions undergo blinded peer review by 2 reviewers with topical expertise and an Associate Editor, who then makes an initial recommendation based on their review and the peer review comments. Final decisions are made after review and revision. Our reviewers and editorial board are to be congratulated for their exemplary volunteer service.

Arthroplasty Today has grown in its social media presence (@ArthroToday), thanks to the creative talents of Jaime Bellamy, DO. We now have 3288 followers on Twitter, with ongoing growth. Her visual abstracts and other posts are a great way to learn, to share information, and to engage in debate with peers. Leverage the power of social media to disseminate content by following @ArthroToday on Twitter. Share your articles, share our posts, and join the conversation!

Arthroplasty Today now has 8 Continuing Medical Education courses available at (https://www.arthroplastytoday.org/cme/home). Each course provides 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit, for only $15.00 USD. It is an easy way to get necessary credits for Maintenance of Certification. We expect to add more courses by year end, and I am hopeful that you will take advantage of this cost-effective and time-efficient option for journal-based Continuing Medical Education.

Thanks to our authors, readers, reviewers, editorial board, Elsevier, American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, and sponsors for making Arthroplasty Today and this Highlights issue a success!