Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: The American Physiological Society has been my home society for over a decade, since I first joined as a graduate student in 2007.The Society has offered me many opportunities for personal and professional development, and thus I am very excited to contribute to one of the most important services of the Society: the dissemination of the ideas and research findings of the physiology community.For the last seven years, outgoing Editor-in-Chief, Willis K. "Rick" Samson (16,19,36,37,56) and his editorial team have demonstrated exemplary stewardship of the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology (AJP-RIC).As a testament to their success, Dr. Samson and his team have achieved an editorial board composition of 35% women, which is high compared with many APS and non-APS journals.Dr. Samson also employed AJP-RIC as a tool to promote the careers of early career investigators by adding the New Investigator Award review competition, in which review articles were solicited from early-stage investigators (34,35,38,41,48).Thus, Dr. Samson has established an important tradition of the Journal-promotion of women and early career physiologists.Likewise, under the leadership of Dr. Samson and his predecessor Dr. Curt Sigmund (39, 40), AJP-RIC has become known for facilitating rapid and high-quality peer review and publishing manuscripts that stand the test of time.This is most evident when considering the metric of citation half-life, which is currently 10.8 for AJP-RIC.This is an impressive metric, especially when compared with the lower citation half-lives of larger journals, such as Cell Metabolism (5.5), Nature Neuroscience (7.7), and Science (0.0).Clearly the AJP-RIC remains fundamentally strong, and I hope to maintain this tradition of excellence established by my predecessors as I assume the reins of Editor-in-Chief.
Author: Gina L. C. Yosten
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3021835308