2021–2022 state of our JCMR

Manning Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance https://doi.org/10.1186/s12968-022-00909-6 (2022) 24:75 Open Access REVIEW 2021–2022 state of our JCMR Warren J. Manning*    Abstract In 2021, there were 136 articles published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (JCMR), including 122 original research papers, six reviews, four technical notes, one Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) guideline, one SCMR position paper, one study protocol, and one obituary (Nathaniel Reichek). The volume was up 53% from 2020 (n = 89) with a corresponding 21% decrease in manuscript submissions from 435 to 345. This led to an increase in the acceptance rate from 24 to 32%. The quality of the submissions continues to be high. The 2021 JCMR Impact Factor (which is released in June 2022) markedly increased from 5.41 to 6.90 placing us in the top quartile of Society and cardiac imaging journals. Our 5 year impact factor similarly increased from 6.52 to 7.25. Fifteen years ago, the JCMR was at the forefront of medical and medical society journal migration to the Open-Access format. The Open-Access system has dramatically increased the availability and JCMR citation. Full-text article requests in 2021 approached 1.5 M!. As I have mentioned, it takes a village to run a journal. JCMR is very fortunate to have a group of very dedicated Associate Editors, Guest Editors, Journal Club Editors, and Reviewers. I thank each of them for their efforts to ensure that the review process occurs in a timely and responsible manner. These efforts have allowed the JCMR to continue as the premier journal of our field. My role, and the entire editorial process would not be possible without the ongoing high dedication and efforts of our managing editor, Jennifer Rodriguez. Her premier organizational skills have allowed for streamlining of the review process and marked improvement in our time-to-decision (see later). As I conclude my 6th and final year as your editor-in-chief, I thank you for entrusting me with the JCMR editorship and appreciate the time I have had at the helm. I am very confident that our Journal will reach new heights under the stewardship of Dr. Tim Leiner, currently at the Mayo Clinic with a seamless transition occurring as I write this in late November. I hope that you will continue to send your very best, high quality CMR manuscripts to JCMR, and that our readers will continue to look to JCMR for the very best/state-of-the-art CMR publications. Background The JCMR is the official publication of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR). In 2021, the JCMR published 136 articles published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (JCMR), including 122 original research papers, six reviews, four technical notes, one Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) guideline, one SCMR position paper, one study protocol, and one obituary (Nathaniel Reichek). The 2021 publication volume was up 53% *Correspondence: Departments of Medicine (Cardiovascular Division) and Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School and JCMR Editorial Office, Boston, MA 02215, USA from 2020 (n = 89) with a corresponding 21% decrease in manuscript submissions from 435 to 345. This led to an increase in the acceptance rate from 24 to 32% (the slight mathematical difference in acceptance/submissions is related to submission year and publication year). As might be expected, COVID-19 publications [1–8] and COVID-19 vaccination publications (8) were plentiful, with 8 published in 2021. In July 2018, the article processing charge (APC) structure changed with SCMR members who are the submitting author paying an APC of only $500, presenting an 82% discount to the full $2680 APC. Reduced APC fees are also available to those from BMC membership institutions, submitting authors from lower income countries, and for those who request a waiver due to financial © The Author(s) 2022. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativeco mmons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. Manning J ournal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (2022) 24:75 Page 2 of 38 hardship. APCs are waived for invited reviews and for Society publications. As for 2020, in 2021, the United States (26%) and China (24%) were the source of 50% of all JCMR publications followed by the United Kingdom (10% and Germany (8%). The top three countries for publications were the United States (31%), United Kingdom (14%) and Germany (10%) (Fig. 1). impact factor similarly increased from 6.52 to 7.25. The 2022 JCMR impact factor will be released in June 2023. Perhaps more important than the Impact Factor is the frequency that JCMR articles are accessed. Our openaccess format allows for much greater visibility for our authors with the 2021 JCMR annual digital downloads now approaching 1,500,000!!—a threshold not achievable with a subscription/print publication of a relatively small Society journal. Open-access has “leveled the playing field” so that an electronic search allows JCMR manuscripts to rise to awareness and to then be downloaded without cost. This is a great benefit to our readers, to the greater scientific community, and to our authors. Data analytics provided by our publisher, BMC, indicate that the vast majority (72%) of on line manuscript searches are identified from a Google, 9% directly from the JCMR web site, 4% from Pubmed. The largest number of searches are from Europe (38%) followed by the United States (28%). Impact factor Though only one of many journal metrics and not a consideration in our review process, the Impact Factor calculated by Clarivate Analytics is nonetheless a wellrecognized metric with which many readers are familiar and is a metric often considered by both authors and readers for submitting and reading manuscripts. I am pleased to report that the 2021 JCMR Impact Factor (which was released in June 2022 and is based on manuscripts published in 2019 (n = 430) and 2020 (n = 633) that wer (...truncated)