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Editorial

Department of Pediatrics Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, New York 10021

Address correspondence to: Maria I. New, Department of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 525 East 68th Street, Room M-622, New York, New York 10021.

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This is my last issue as Editor-in-Chief of JCEM. I have chosen to have it focus on Pediatric Endocrinology. In June we had an issue devoted to women’s health, and in October an issue that concentrated on men’s health, but children’s health problems are often unique, and, therefore, I believe it is valuable to assemble papers that reflect the important work going on in this field.

In leaving the editorship of JCEM in the very capable hands of John Bilezikian and his associate editors, I want to thank my own team: John Bilezikian, Terry Davies, Andrea Dunaif, Joseph Gertner, Julianne Imperato-McGinley, Robert Kreisberg, Richard Mahler, Andrea Manni, and Sharon Wardlaw. They have done a superb job over the past 6 years in helping me to shape a new image for JCEM with a more clinical orientation. The Table of Contents now shows in red ink papers that may have special interest to clinicians. The number of clinical papers has grown significantly, and we find that they are of ever-higher quality. We are pleased to report that on October 1 an independent marketing survey showed JCEM was ranked first by clinicians among all endocrinology and diabetes journals with respect to the journals’ importance to their practice.

Submissions to JCEM increased by over 50% (from 1200 per year to 2000 per year) during our tenure, and our impact factor as a journal has risen dramatically as well. At the same time, subscriptions by members and purchase of advertisements have increased, to The Endocrine Society’s benefit. We have invited more papers than has ever been done in an Endocrine Society journal. We have done this to stimulate debate and discussion and to make the journal appealing to a wider audience of endocrinologists. At the same time, thanks to the Publications Committee (chaired first by Kenneth Barker, then Carole Mendelson, and now William Rosner), we successfully petitioned for an increase in the number of pages JCEM may publish, so that there has been no diminution of space for original studies in both basic and clinical science. We innovated new types of articles for JCEM: Therapeutic Controversies, Extensive Personal Experience, Profiles of the Endocrine Clinic, Prismatic Cases, Clinical Case Seminars, Invited Reviews of Workshops, Book Reviews, and Letters to the Editor. Clinicians, students, and researchers are all subscribers to JCEM, and we hope that we have provided good material each month for every reader.

The Editorial Boards of JCEM during my tenure have been outstanding, and it is largely thanks to them that we have been able to sustain our rapid growth and achieve our goals.

I would also like to thank the editorial staff of the journal (Elizabeth Kitzinger, Alexander Jordan, and Carol Luckett-Carroll), whose efficiency has enabled me to maintain a fast turnaround time on decisions and good relationships with expert reviewers around the world.

Lenne Miller and his staff at The Endocrine Society do a superb, and underrecognized, job at managing the journals’ business and maintaining the high quality of production at our fine printers, Cadmus Journal Services. We thank Katherine Grier, Joy Williams, Elizabeth Appel, Patricia Gage, Sheri Harris, Mike Boyle, and Charlie Smith at Cadmus Journal Services and Steve Hamburger, our advertising representative at Scherago International, for their outstanding work on the journal over the past six years.

It has been hard work, but also very rewarding. I look forward to seeing the journal take its next step with excitement and confidence and thank you all for the many high-quality submissions we have received from you over the past 6 years.

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