The Terrific Twos! Annual Report from the Editor

With the end of 2012, the Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care (SWJPCC) completed its second year of operation. Our first manuscript was posted on November 11, 2010. We posted 8 manuscripts our first year, 68 during 2011, and 113 during 2012 (Table 1).  

Table 1. Postings by SWJPCC 2010-2.

 

Accompanying our increase in manuscripts, our readership has steadily grown to about 3000/month unique IP addresses and about 9000/month page views (the number of files that are requested from a site, also known as “hits”) (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Growth of unique IP addresses and page views by month during 2012.

We had some big changes in 2012. Some of which are listed below:

• New Mexico and Colorado Thoracic Societies partnered with Arizona in SWJPCC.
• SWJPCC is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
• The Case of the Month was expanded to cases by including a Pulmonary and Critical Care Case of the Month in addition to Imaging.
• A Sleep Board Review Question section was added.
• A “News” section was launched.
• A Medical Image of the Week section was inaugurated.

Many need to be thanked. First, thanks to our authors. You took a chance on a new journal and we appreciate the opportunity to publish your work. Second, thanks to our reviewers.  SWJPCC, like all journals, relies upon expert reviewers in order to publish the highest quality manuscripts. We thank the reviewers for their time and effort in the prompt submission of their reviews. A list of reviewers for 2012 is below.

• David Baratz
• Lee Brown
• Richard Carlson
• John Costantino
• Steven Curry
• Thomas Daniels
• Venu Gopal
• Michael Garrett
• Mark Gotfried
• Michael Habib
• Michelle Harkins
• Steve Klotz
• Kenneth Knox
• Manoj Mathew
• Rakesh Nanda
• Huw Owen-Reece
• James Parish
• George Parides
• Lillibeth Pineda
• Stuart Quan
• Robert Raschke
• Richard Robbins
• Clement Singarajah
• Allen Thomas
• Dona Upson
• Laszlo Vaszar
• Zahid Virk
• Carolyn Welsh
• Lewis Wesselius

Our gratitude goes to the Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado Thoracic Societies for their support. Thanks to our associate editors who have put in much more work than we had the right to ask. A special note of thanks to those who continue to do regular features in SWJPCC-Bob Raschke and Manoj Mathew for the critical care and pulmonary journal clubs; Mike Gotway, Lew Wesselius and Bob Raschke for the cases of the month; Rohit Budhiraja for the Sleep Question of the Month; and Ken Knox for the Medical Image of the Week; and Peter Wagner for his wine column, Slurping Around with PDW. SWJPCC acknowledges the Phoenix Pulmonary and Critical Care Research and Education Foundation which has provided the monetary support for SWJPCC. Last, and most importantly, thanks to our readers. Please visit as often as you can and feel free to provide us with your input.

What’s ahead for 2013? Yogi Berra was probably right, “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”  We hope to improve the content, especially the scientific content, for 2013, but we will continue to emphasize clinical medicine and education. With the help of Ken Knox, Skip Harris, Mike Gotway, Lewis Wesselius and Clement Singarajah, we hope to begin offering Continuing Medical Education (CME) in the early part of 2013. Although we have learned that the is future hard to predict, we sincerely believe that with your help the SWJPCC will continue to grow and improve.

Richard A. Robbins, MD

Editor, SWJPCC

Reference as: Robbins RA. The terrific twos! annual report from the editor. Southwest J Pulm Crit Care 2013;6(1):1-3. PDF