Diabetes Care: Change Is Constant, Part 2.

Abstract

On 1 July 2011, I began my initial duties as Editor in Chief of Diabetes Care . In my initial Editor’s Commentary titled “ Diabetes Care : Change Is Constant” (1), I outlined the current status of the journal and what I had learned from the outstanding editors and associate editors who came before me. I described how, as an editorial team, we had prepared to take on the enormous duties that lay before us by studying the strategies that former editorial teams used to advance the journal. We evaluated what had worked, what didn’t work, and provided a narrative on our anticipated challenges. We initiated actions to address and keep abreast of changing times, increased competition from other journals now focused on diabetes, and the issues related to alterations in research funding and health care delivery that would likely drive the content for the journal. During my tenure as Editor in Chief, our editorial team kept you, our readers, well informed with regular updates on our progress, format changes, and views on controversial topics. With dedication and vision, as well as the expertise from the editorial office, the editorial team, and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Publishing office, we were successful in sustaining the upward trajectory of the journal. The journal's latest impact factor for 2016 is 11.857—its highest impact factor ever—which is an increase from 8.934 in 2015. Diabetes Care , without question, is at its highest level in relevance and remains the world’s premier journal focused solely on diabetes care and clinical research. Given the success of the journal as outlined above and the fact that our “team” (i.e., editorial committee, editorial office, and publications staff) felt we still had “creative ideas to make the journal better and considerable energy to bring these ideas to fruition,” we …