J Telemed Telecare 2008;14:448-450
doi:10.1258/jtt.2008.140008
© 2008 Royal Society of Medicine Press
TAILPIECEStatistics and acknowledgements |
2008 summary statistics and acknowledgements
Richard Wootton, Editor-in-Chief and
Elizabeth Krupinski, Co-Editor
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
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Publication statistics
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Publication statistics are of interest (for different reasons)
to author, subscriber and publisher alike. They also allow the
identification of long-term trends relating to the
JTT. As Luft
has pointed out, the definition of such statistics requires
some care.
1 Over the last decade or so we have used a consistent,
if simple methodology. The straightforward definitions we adopted
were that ‘refereeing’ is the interval between submission
of a paper and the receipt of the reviewers' reports, ‘editing’
is the interval between the receipt of the reviews and the manuscript
being sent to the production department for typesetting, and
‘publishing’ is the interval between a manuscript
being despatched for typesetting and its appearance in print
and online. The relevant statistics have been published each
year since the journal began. They have been compiled in a careful
and consistent manner that has allowed comparison between years,
and thus the identification of long-term trends. Unfortunately,
a consequence of the publisher's recent move to a web-based
manuscript-handling system means that simple statistics are
now extremely difficult to extract.
We will therefore content ourselves with some fairly general statements about the publication process during 2008. The median length of time required for refereeing was 26 days. The median length of time between a paper being received and it appearing in print was 26 weeks. The proportion of submitted papers which was accepted for publication was below 40% (Box 1).
| Box 1 Key facts The JTT is a peer-reviewed specialist journal which: - covers all aspects of telemedicine and telecare, including online health and e-health;
- is published eight times per year;
- has an impact factor of 0.963.
The JTT is an international publication and:- subscribers come from 34 different countries;
- over 30,000 copies of papers are downloaded from the online journal each year;
- the majority of papers published are from western Europe or North America.
During 2008:- the acceptance rate for papers was less than 40%;
- the median interval between submission and publication was 26 weeks;
- the journal ranked in the top quartile in its group for numbers of articles published.
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Bibliometric statistics
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Bibliometric statistics are compiled each year by the Institute
for Scientific Information (ISI). The
JTT is included in the
ISI category ‘Health care sciences and services’
which covers 57 journals. During the year 2007, the median number
of articles published by journals in this category was 59 (interquartile
range 35–102). The
JTT, which published 138, ranked 11th
out of 57.
During 2007, the median number of citations to articles published in the 57 journals in the health-care sciences category was 833 (interquartile range 494–1642). The JTT, which was cited 1112 times, was ranked 22nd out of the 57. The ratio between the number of citations and the number of articles published gives the impact factor. The JTT's impact factor was 0.963 and the journal ranked 38th out of 57.
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Conferences
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The 14th international conference, TeleMed and eHealth '07,
was held in London in November 2007. Selected papers –
22 of them – were published in issue 3 of volume 14. The
Tromsø Telemedicine and eHealth Conference was held in
Tromsø in June 2008. Seventeen selected papers were published
in issue 7 of volume 14.
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Electronic access
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All subscribers are entitled to access the full-text electronic
version of the
Journal at no extra cost (see
http://jtt.rsmjournals.com/).
Online issues dating back to Volume 2 (1996) are available.
Free online access for subscribers will continue in 2009. Online
access is becoming increasingly popular with subscribers and
access to abstracts and full-text downloading continues to grow.
During 2008, the publisher changed its Internet publishing service
to a new provider, HighWire Press. Usage figures for the first
part of 2008 are based on the Ingenta service, and for the remainder
are based on HighWire (Table
1).
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Acknowledgements
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Since the majority of the
Journal's referees are overseas, it
is our opinion that the very rapid refereeing time (a median
time of less than four weeks) reflects great credit on them.
As Editors, we are most grateful to the following reviewers,
whether domestic or international, for their assistance with
refereeing papers:
- Dr Francesco-Maria Acampora, Naples, Italy
- Dr Dale Alverson, University of New Mexico, USA
- Mrs Robina Ashraf, MCS NUST, Pakistan
- Dr Knut Augestad, University Hospital of North Norway, Norway
- Dr Appathurai Balamurugan, Arkansas Department of Health, USA
- Dr Dave Balch, Medical Missions for Children, USA
- Dr Gail Barker, University of Arizona, USA
- Mr Adrian Barnett, University of Queensland, Australia
- Mr Mark Bensink, University of Queensland, Australia
- Ms Susie Bohnenkamp, University of Arizona, USA
- Dr Suzanne Boren, University of Missouri, USA
- Dr Taxiarchis Botsis, University of Tromsø, Norway
- Mr David Brennan, National Rehabilitation Hospital, USA
- Ms Elizabeth Brooks, University of Colorado, USA
- Dr Maria Bujnowska-Fedak, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland
- Dr Anne Burdick, University of Miami, USA
- Dr Sam Burgiss, University of Tennessee, USA
- Dr Diane Castelli, AMD Global Telemedicine, USA
- Dr Gianluca Castelnuovo, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy
- Dr Zack Cernovsky, University of Western Ontario, Canada
- Professor Neil Charness, Florida State University, USA
- Dr Wan-Lin Chen, International SOS, Taiwan, Province of China
- Dr Lisa Chu-Weininger, University of Houston - Clear Lake, USA
- Dr Malcolm Clarke, Brunel University, UK
- Ms Paula Cloutier, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Canada
- Dr Ellen Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Dr Georgina Corte Franco, Centre Hospitaliere Universitaire, France
- Dr Mario Cruz, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA
- Professor Sally Dampier, Lakehead University, Canada
- Dr Stuti Dang, University of Miami, USA
- Dr Winston Davidson, University of Technology, Jamaica
- Professor George Demiris, University of Washington, USA
- Mr Charles Doarn, University of Cincinnati, USA
- Dr William Durfee, University of Minnesota, USA
- Dr Sisira Edirippuligé, University of Queensland, Australia
- Dr Nina Eminovic, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Mr Hossein Fariborzi, University of Malaya, Malaysia
- Dr James Ferguson, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, UK
- Dr John Finley, IWK Health Center, Canada
- Dr Ilona Frieden, University of California San Francisco, USA
- Dr Chris Frueh, University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA
- Dr Friedrich Fruhwald, Medical University Graz, Austria
- Dr Deede Gammon, University Hospital of North Norway, Norway
- Dr Jyothis George, York Hospital, UK
- Professor Daniele Giansanti, Instituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
- Dr Wojciech Glinkowski, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
- Dr Mark Goldyne, University of California, San Francisco, USA
- Dr Lefteris Gortzis, University of Patras, Greece
- Dr Eva Gotell, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Sweden
- Dr Dimitrios Goulis, Unit of Reproductive Endocrinology, Greece
- Professor Len Gray, University of Queensland, Australia
- Professor David Hailey, University of Queensland, Australia
- Dr Marilynne Hebert, University of Calgary, Canada
- Dr Paul Heinzelmann, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare, USA
- Dr Thomas Helms, Deutsche Stiftung für Chronisch Kranke, Germany
- Ms Anne Hill, University of Queensland, Australia
- Dr Donald Hilty, UC Davis, USA
- Dr Khim Horton, University of Surrey, UK
- Dr Ki-Jian Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Shanghai First People's Hospital, China
- Dr Elsie Hui, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- Dr Robert Kane, VA Medical Center, USA
- Dr James Katzenstein, HealthSpan International Foundation, USA
- Dr Joseph Kolars, Mayo Clinic, USA
- Dr Ian Kunkler, Western General Hospital, UK
- Dr Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- Dr Albert Lai, Columbia University, USA
- Dr Helen Li, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
- Mr Denny Lordan, Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center, USA
- Dr Gabriella Macchia, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
- Mr Lennart Magnusson, University of Kalmar, Sweden
- Ms Melinda Martin-Khan, University of Queensland, Australia
- Dr Jonathan Matusitz, University of Central Florida, USA
- Dr Thomas McLean, Eastern Kansas VA Health Care System, USA
- Mr Joe McMenamin, McGuireWoods LLP, USA
- Dr Gerard Menezes, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
- Dr Ron Merrell, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
- Dr James Mitchell, Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, North Dakota, USA
- Dr Hiroko Mochizuki-Kawai, National Institute of Floricultural Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan
- Mr Davor Mucic, Little Prince Psychiatric Centre, Denmark
- Dr Lan Nghiem-Phu, Mac Systems Corporation, USA
- Dr Jose Nieves, VA Medical Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA
- Dr Dennis Oh, University of California, San Francisco, USA
- Professor Arto Ohinmaa, University of Alberta, Canada
- Dr Richard O'Reilly, Regional Mental Health Care, Canada
- Dr Claudia Pagliari, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Dr Victor Patterson, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK
- Professor Gordon Peterkin, Scottish Centre for Telehealth, Aberdeen, UK
- Mrs Carole Porcari, Eastern Michigan University, USA
- Dr Manuel Prado, Network National Center of Biomedical Research in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine, Spain
- Dr Terry Rabinowitz, University of Vermont, USA
- Dr Christopher Rudnisky, University of Alberta, Canada
- Dr Trevor Russell, University of Queensland, Australia
- Dr Stefan Savenstedt, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
- Dr Simonetta Scalvini, Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, Italy
- Dr Gunter Schreier, Austrian Research Centers GmbH – ARC, Austria
- Dr Richard Scott, University of Calgary, Canada
- Professor Paul Scuffham, Griffith University, Australia
- Dr Daniel Siegel, SUNY Downstate, USA
- Dr Anil-Martin Sinha, Klinikum Coburg, Germany
- Dr Anthony Smith, University of Queensland, Australia
- Professor Peter Soyer, University of Queensland, Australia
- Dr Jürgen te Vrugt, Philips Research Europe, Germany
- Professor Deborah Theodoros, University of Queensland, Australia
- Ms Rachel Toomey, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Dr Bruce Tulloh, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, UK
- Dr F Verhoeven, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Dr Kelly Webber, University of Kentucky, USA
- Dr Ron Weinstein, University of Arizona, USA
- Dr John Whited, VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Dr Tim Wilkinson, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Dr Jill Winters, Marquette University, USA
- Dr Peter Wu, University of Washington/VA Puget Sound, USA
- Professor Sun Yoo, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
- Dr Ping Yu, University of Wollongong, Australia
- Ms Donna Zazworksky, Carondelet Health Network, USA
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Reference
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- Luft HS. From the Editors: perspectives on turnaround time. Health Serv Res 2004;39:1–6[Medline]
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