Year: 2012
Type: editorial
Abstract: In January, in my first editorial as editor in chief for Diabetes Care , I described our editorial team’s future plans for the journal. With all the changes we were experiencing in research progress, in data dissemination, in the funding of priorities, in health care changes, and in the increased burden of diabetes worldwide, I was very optimistic that Diabetes Care was “well positioned to take advantage of the noted opportunities.” Our team welcomed both the prospects and the challenges ahead. In my first editorial, I also wrote: “The saying that ‘the only constant is change’ applies very well to Diabetes Care for the next 5 years.” I made that statement after reviewing how the prior editors continued to adapt to the changing times during their tenures. Essentially, they either continued “the current course for Diabetes Care with only minor adjustments” based on assessing the conditions operative at the time, or they identified and took full “advantage of the unique strengths of the journal and significantly added to them.” In essence, I felt that during my tenure and charge as editor, I would not do anything differently. I would survey the current landscape of clinical, research, and health care changes and adapt the journal and strategies to provide the most up-to-date information for our readers. Now, 6 months later, I can definitely state with a great deal of confidence that as an editorial team, we are clearly on track, if not slightly ahead of our schedule, in strengthening the journal. However, I will have to readily admit that I clearly underestimated the rate of change in a certain area. Specifically, and as outlined below, many changes have been made to vastly improve and accelerate how information is disseminated from Diabetes Care. The rate at which these changes have taken place …
Source: Diabetes Care
DOI: 10.2337/dc12-0734
Author: William T. Cefalu
Language: Afrikaans
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2078089532