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Over the past year, since the murder of George Floyd precipitated a groundswell of national reflection and transformative efforts to achieve diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DEI) in all spheres of our lives, I have grappled with how to foster DEI at our journal. Here I share our efforts and some accomplishments. When I began as Editor-in-Chief in 2018, my goal, as stated in my first editorial (Lake, 2018), was to advance nursing science by elevating RINAH internationally. My reasoning was that “regard for nursing research by nurses and other disciplines is essential for nursing research to improve care and health.” I also anticipated that a strong reputation would, through enhanced readership, “speed the translation of research evidence into practice and policy.” I articulated several other priorities in my first board meeting in June 2018: fair consideration of manuscripts, satisfying service for associate editors, reviewers, and the editorial board, and novel content. Nowhere in my vista was the centrality of DEI to achieving either our journal's mission, that is, “to build knowledge that informs the practice of nursing and other health disciplines,” or my goals. DEI in scholarly publishing is a goal with singular merit on ethical grounds. What has been dawning on me over time, however, is that DEI is also an essential driver to achieving my original goals and priorities. This is true because DEI broadens the content submitted, which simultaneously augments novelty. DEI increases the likelihood that manuscripts will be considered fairly. DEI makes service to the journal more satisfying by emphasizing that we value DEI. All who serve the journal can feel welcomed, valued, and treated fairly. My efforts toward DEI at RINAH are multifaceted. Here, I describe four efforts: (1) diversifying the RINAH board and editorial staff, (2) learning about becoming antiracist as a person and about DEI journal practices, (3) planning a special issue on health inequity and social determinants of health (SDOH), and (4) planning a guest editorial series on health equity. I began to diversify the board and editorial staff upon my arrival. First, I recruited my Penn Nursing faculty colleague, Professor Jianghong Liu, PhD, RN, FAAN, to become an associate editor. At RINAH, the associate editor assesses a manuscript and its peer reviews and prepares guidance to the authors as well as a recommendation to the Executive Editor to accept, invite a minor or major revision, or reject the manuscript. Professor Liu is Chinese and maintains an active program of research on child and adolescent behavior in China as well as in the United States. I intended to diversify our editorial staff and to improve our knowledge and interpretation of the cultural and scientific aspects of the many papers we receive from China, which comprise one-fifth of submissions. I also desired to demonstrate our openness to the large body of Chinese nursing research and scientists. In 2020, I diversified the editorial board by recruiting Drs. Ronald L. Hickman Jr., PhD, RN, ACNP-BC, FAAN, who is African American, and Nilda (Nena) Peragallo Montano, DRPH, RN, FAAN who is Hispanic from Chile. Dr. Hickman is a Professor who studies health decision-making while serving as Associate Dean for Research at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. Dr. Peragallo, who is Dean and Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, research health disparities and culturally competent interventions with minority populations. The editorial board members are expected to solicit manuscripts, conduct peer reviews, and assist the editor in decisions such as the topics for special issues. I expected that by their service, Drs. Hickman and Peragallo would signal our commitment to nursing research about minority individuals and by minority researchers. Recently, I crudely evaluated whether the journal content has reflected these board changes by noting papers from Latin or South American institution-based authors or with the word Hispanic, Latino/a/x, Black, or African American in the title. I did not attempt to determine the racial identity of the lead authors. I found that we had published one paper from South American authors (Brazil) before the addition of Dr. Peragallo as a board member, and four (two from Brazil, two from Colombia) after. We also increased the number of empirical research publications focused on Latino populations, according to the article titles, from one before to two after Dr. Peragallo joined the board. We had published three research protocols on patients of the Black race before Dr. Hickman joined the board, and one protocol, a feasibility study, and two empirical papers afterward. I also scanned for the word native or indigenous but found no papers with these words in the titles. Although we cannot attribute these increases to the diversification of our board, I believe that the presence of Drs. Hickman and Peragallo is having a positive influence. In 2021, I diversified our editorial staff by inviting Dr. Yolanda Powell-Young, PhD, RN, CPN, PCNS-BC, FAAN, who is of African American and Native American heritage, to become an associate editor. Dr. Powell-Young studies biobehavioral factors impacting the health of African American adolescent females and other vulnerable population subgroups. She serves as a Senior Scientist and Advisor at Young Group, LLC, an institute on advancing global science, research, and policy capacity based in Norfolk, VA. Notably, Dr. Powell-Young had been awarded the best RINAH reviewer of 2016, demonstrating her commitment and ability. My learning about how to be an antiracist includes reading the book, Caste: The origins of our discontents (Wilkerson, 2020). This book opened my eyes to how a caste system based on skin color developed and is perpetuated in the United States. In addition to the profound suffering and injustice endured by African Americans over the past four centuries, this caste system diminishes our society and each individual regardless of our place in the system. As an editor, I am a member of the International Academy of Nursing Editors. In our 2021 virtual meeting, I attended the outstanding session “Connecting with Readers through Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equity” presented by Assistant Professor Tamika Hudson, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, Associate Professor Courtney Pitts, DNP, MPH, FNP-BC, FAANP, and Professor Rolanda Johnson, PhD, MSN, RN, of Vanderbilt University's School of Nursing. Their excellent presentation may be available from the presenters. They also shared a toolkit developed by the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (undated). Another session, “Transforming Scholarly publishing Through an Equity and Anti-Racism Framework,” was presented by Ms. Kerry Webb from the University of Texas Press. Ms. Webb described why and how to change workplace culture at interpersonal, organizational, and cross-organizational levels. What I learned from these sessions that seems promising for our journal to increase in DEI includes self-evaluations for the presence of unconscious bias and cultural humility as well as initiatives such as statements on the journal website addressing DEI and issuing a call for reviewers that cites a commitment to diversity and inclusion. One of our journal priorities is to advance nursing science by showcasing the latest evidence on urgent topics in special issues. Our editorial board chooses the topics. In my tenure, we presented a special issue on Research Methods in December 2019 (Lake, 2019) and one on Telehealth and mHealth in February 2020 (O'Connor & Bowles, 2021). This second special issue was particularly timely as the COVID-19 pandemic vaulted the use of both telehealth and mHealth. In December 2020, acknowledging the interrelated crises of 2020, our board selected the special issue topic of health inequity and SDOH, including the impact of COVID-19 on health inequities. In the call for papers, we referenced the World Health Organization's description (2018) of health inequities as “differences in health status or in the distribution of health resources between different population groups, arising from the social conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.” We specified that population groups of interest include racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ individuals, migrants, and military personnel or veterans. The call noted further that the distribution of health resources may be influenced by SDOH. We offered the Healthy People 2030 description of SDOH: “conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, undated). I invite guest editors for our special issues to heighten the visibility of the call for papers, the credibility of the issue and attract papers. For our special issue on health inequity and SDOH, I invited Drs. Bridgette Brawner, PhD, MDiv, APRN, Professor at Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick, College of Nursing, J. Margo Brooks Carthon, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor, and Adriana Perez, PhD, CRNP, ANP-BC, FAAN, FGSA, Assistant Professor, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Dr. Brawner research interventions to address the sexual health needs of adolescents. Dr. Brooks Carthon research the quality of nursing care and racial inequities in outcomes. Dr. Perez research interventions to promote physical activity in older Latinos with mild cognitive impairment. Through these guest editorial appointments, we simultaneously enhance the diversity of our editorial staff. The guest editors instructed me on the differences between health disparities and health inequities, as well as between social factors or social needs as compared to SDOH. That is, disparities are differences in outcomes, but inequity includes a focus on the unjust systems that cause disparities. We expect the papers that focus on inequity will discuss policy implications. To discern social factors and needs from SDOH, the guest editors recommend two articles that attempt to clarify the meanings (Alderwick & Gottlieb, 2019; Castrucci & Auerbach, 2019). Broadly speaking social needs and factors are individual-level and social determinants are community-level. How these needs, factors, and determinants are incorporated into research questions and the development of interventions warrants thorough scrutiny. We are sharing the guest editors' insights and these resources with the authors of special issue manuscripts to present a cohesive issue in which the content reflects the above definitions and expectations and is thereby more impactful. Earlier this year, I attended the Eastern Nursing Research Society presentation by Dr. Allison Squires, PhD, RN, FAAN, on the appropriate use of language associated with race/ethnicity, SDOH, immigrants, and substance use. Dr. Squires, an Associate Professor at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing, has associate editor roles at multiple health research journals. She is an expert in global health, migration and immigrant health, and health services and workforce research. I invited Dr. Squires to coordinate a series of guest editorials to complement our early 2022 special issue. The series will begin with a December 2021 editorial by Dr. Squires on learning the language of equity. Thereafter, each 2022 RINAH issue will feature a guest editorial on respectful language in scientific writing on immigrants, LGBTQ individuals, race/ethnicity, native Americans, incarcerated people, and veterans, in an order to be determined. We at RINAH are attempting, with humility, to foster DEI in our journal practices through diversification of our editorial board and staff, and education about antiracist and DEI initiatives. We hope to meet the needs of our RINAH readers and authors by dedicating seven sequential editorials to guidance on appropriate and respectful scientific writing about populations suffering health inequities. By selecting health inequity and SDOH as research topics deserving of a special issue, we will provide empirical evidence that will inform interventions and policy actions to reduce health inequities. Through these initiatives, we will build knowledge by historically underrepresented researchers and for historically underserved peoples to thereby improve health.

The 1st of January 2021 marks 2 years since I assumed the helm as editor-in-chief of Anesthesia Progress. Throughout that time, the journal has continued its upward trajectory of growth, building upon the firm foundation laid by my predecessors. Accordingly, this is a perfect time to inform the readership of several changes and updates to the journal.The Anesthesia Progress Editorial Board has had some turnover recently following the departure of 2 longstanding members. On behalf of the entire American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (ADSA) Board of Directors, my proceeding editors-in-chief, and the readers of this journal, I extend sincere gratitude and appreciation to the outgoing individuals who have graciously elected to step aside: Daniel A. Haas, DDS, PhD, and Takehiko Iijima, DDS, PhD. Dr Haas, a member of the editorial board for roughly 18 years, is currently quite busy as dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry and undoubtedly handling the role with deft and ease. Dr Iijima, a professor at Showa University in Japan, was elected as president of the Japanese Dental Society of Anesthesiology in late 2019. He began his tenure on the editorial board of Anesthesia Progress starting in 2015 and held the position of editor-in-chief for the Journal of Japanese Dental Society of Anesthesia (JJDSA) from 2013 until his 2019 election. Although they will be profoundly missed, both individuals have thankfully agreed to continue serving as periodic peer reviewers and content experts. I am confident that the editorial board will not miss a step continuing onward due to the addition of 2 highly qualified individuals: Carilynne Yarascavitch, DDS, MSc, and Kentaro Mizuta, DDS, PhD. A well-known and highly respected dentist anesthesiologist, Dr Yarascavitch joins Anesthesia Progress by way of the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry where she is an assistant professor and also served as the graduate residency program director for dental anesthesiology. Dr Mizuta, a talented dentist anesthesiologist and professor at Tohoku University in Japan, was selected in 2019 to begin his tenure as the editor-in-chief of JJDSA. I look forward to working with these 2 highly qualified individuals and am supremely confident the editorial board remains in strong hands.Last year Anesthesia Progress announced the establishment of a new annual feature, "Landmark Articles in Dental Anesthesiology with Commentary in Honor of Joel M. Weaver, DDS, PhD." The inaugural selection was published in the winter of 2019 (Volume 66, Issue 4) and was quite well received. As mentioned in the issue's introductory editorial, the yearly recipient of the ADSA's Heidbrink Award would be invited to choose a seminal article for reprint along with a brief commentary on its continued relevance and historical importance. However, due to the ongoing pandemic and the resulting virtual format of the 2020 ADSA Annual Session, the ADSA Board of Directors elected to withhold conferring the Heidbrink Award until 2021 when the ADSA Annual Session can hopefully be held in-person. In light of these circumstances, Christine Quinn, DDS, MS, graciously agreed to provide this year's selection and chose a publication by her longtime mentor and close friend, the late John A. Yagiela, DDS, PhD. Dr Yagiela was not only a previous editor of Anesthesia Progress but also a Heidbrink Award winner (2000), as was Dr Quinn (2017). I am sure readers will appreciate the retrospective glimpse into the genius that was Dr Yagiela along with the personal touch presented by Dr Quinn.Although the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to infiltrate seemingly all aspects of life, some of the impact on Anesthesia Progress has been surprisingly positive. I am happy to report that based on the current trends the total number of article submissions to the journal is anticipated to nearly double the previous yearly averages. One can assume that this increase directly reflects time away from direct patient care and research due to pandemic-induced closures and lockdowns. There have been some notable submissions focusing on the interplay between COVID-19 and sedation or anesthesia for dentistry; however, I remain perpetually impressed with the overall depth and breadth of the submitted manuscripts. The sizable increase in articles has put a bit of stress on the editorial staff, though this is a worthwhile problem for the journal. I would like to thank all authors for their patience throughout this exceptionally busy period. Please rest assured that the staff remain committed to ensuring that all submissions are reviewed, edited, and returned in a timely manner. I also extend my personal gratitude to all the volunteers who participate in the peer review process and help evaluate submissions, particularly throughout the course of this past year. Anesthesia Progress would be unable to fulfill its mission without your continued assistance and noteworthy contributions.Finally, as readers who primarily access the journal's content online have no doubt noticed, the website (anesthesiaprogress.org) has undergone several significant upgrades, particularly ease of use with mobile devices and tablets. The redesigned site has incorporated multiple features designed to streamline the user experience including an enhanced homepage layout that presents the latest, most read, and most cited articles, as well as any open access content. Users can now save their search results and can set email notifications for personalized topics of interest and alerts for issue releases and articles published ahead of print. Online articles can now be read in either the standard format or the new split-screen option, which allows the reader to simultaneously view the text and any additional content like tables, figures, or references. Although many may still prefer reading the printed version of the journal, I encourage readers to explore the revamped online experience.Despite a pandemic-ridden 2020 that seems to have lasted for years itself, my time serving as your editor-in-chief these past 2 years has flown by in a blur. It is my hope that the readers of Anesthesia Progress enjoy these updates and improvements. The editorial board and staff remain fully dedicated to ensuring Anesthesia Progress continues expanding its reach as the definitive journal for pain and anxiety control in dentistry.

The American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal: Training the Next Generation of Academic Psychiatrists.

Editorial Decision Making for Academic Medicine, 2021.

When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three, I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever. From Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne [1] This year we will begin our sixth year of publishing PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, the first open-access journal for the community of biomedical and social scientists, public health experts, and health care providers committed to studying the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) (Figure 1). Jumpstarted with seed funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, together with an editorial staff and a PLOS board of directors dedicated to editorial and journal capacity building in the world's low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), PLOS NTDs began in 2007 with an editorial entitled A New Voice for the Poor [2]. From the outset, PLOS NTDs worked to create a unique vision for publishing tropical medicine papers that was different from other journals in the field. By maintaining our dedication to the concept of open access, we hoped that PLOS NTDs would be read by a wide community of NTD experts while simultaneously attracting new people to the field. Figure 1 Cover of the PLOS NTDs inaugural issue, limited print edition. We began especially eager to embrace a larger community of scholars from LMICs, and to an extent we have achieved some successes on that front. Today, roughly 30 percent of our editorial board members are from LMICs. Brazil, China, and India are among the seven leading countries from which corresponding authors have submitted papers to PLOS NTDs since its founding (Table 1), and Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and Thailand are among the top 20 countries submitting papers to PLOS NTDs. However, our editorial staff and board feel that we could improve our endemic country outreach, and we are aggressively seeking to expand the editorial board representation and papers that come from low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia, where submissions have been far fewer (Figure 2). Figure 2 Papers submitted and published by region between October 2007 and July 2012. Table 1 Top countries by number of submissions. We are deeply grateful to the Gates Foundation for their initial support, which ended more than two years ago. Today, we are pleased to report that we are at the “break-even point” financially. Currently, we receive close to 100 submissions each month—more than double the number of papers from when we first started. Unlike some of the other PLOS journals, which in some cases only accept one in ten papers submitted, our goal is to be more inclusive so as to strongly embrace authors and papers from LMICs. Today our acceptance rate at PLOS NTDs is roughly 50 percent, and whenever possible we try to provide intensive editorial support for submissions by LMIC authors. We are proud of the fact that our capacity building efforts have not occurred at the expense of quality. For the last three years, since we became eligible to receive a Thomson Reuters citation impact factor rating, our journal has had the highest ranking of any tropical medicine journal. We are pleased to report that this success has also not come at the expense of other tropical medicine journals, whose impact factors have also mostly increased over the years. Shortly after our launch, Dr. Richard Horton, The Lancet editor-in-chief, wrote a strong endorsement of our journal and our efforts at global outreach. We were very grateful for that support, and in that spirit we also hope to ensure that our editors and staff “lift all boats” in the area of tropical medicine publishing, especially for those journals and organizations committed to open access. After we began, the open-access journal Parasites & Vectors was launched by BioMed Central, and we especially want to wish them success, as well as other journals such as the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, which now offers open-access options. Ultimately, the leadership at PLOS feels strongly that there are more informative metrics available than those offered by conventional impact factor ratings. For instance, along with the other PLOS journals, we have implemented a system of article-specific metrics in order to determine the number of times that our articles are downloaded and viewed. We have determined that 20 of our PLOS NTDs articles have been downloaded at least 5,000 times each by our readers, while four articles have been downloaded more than 10,000 times, including articles on the origins of the treponematoses, NTDs in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, and even neglected infections of poverty in the United States. Our most widely viewed article has more than 30,000 downloads. We also follow blogosphere coverage and coverage by major media outlets—stories about PLOS NTDs appear regularly in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and the Guardian, as well as electronic media—in addition to community ratings and expert assessments. A word about journal scope: since our beginning we have tried to stay focused on the major NTDs afflicting the “bottom billion”, i.e., the world's 1.4 billion people who live in poverty and are disproportionately affected by these conditions [2]. We have subsequently responded to an increasing demand from the arbovirus community (especially regarding dengue papers) and experts in neglected bacterial and fungal infections (e.g., leptospirosis, mycobacterial infections such as Buruli ulcer and leprosy, and paracoccidioidomycosis) by increasing our editorial board representation in these areas. We also look forward to continuing our long-standing commitment to papers on neglected helminth and protozoan infections. In contrast, we have largely avoided papers that deal with falciparum malaria unless they also mention collateral effects on the NTDs. Instead, we feel there are excellent journals already out there that can handle such papers, including the open-access Malaria Journal. However, we have listened to the scientists and health professionals who make a compelling case that vivax malaria is a true NTD and have been reviewing papers on this disease for several years now. We anticipate that the scope of PLOS NTDs will continue to evolve and invite our readers to visit the journal scope section of our website and even to submit editorials that make a strong argument why the scope may require amendment or adjustment. As our journal expands and grows, we are working hard to ensure that papers submitted to PLOS NTDs receive a timely review and decision. Together with our deputy editors and associate editors, the PLOS editorial staff based in San Francisco and now also Cambridge, United Kingdom, meets continually to review its procedures and seeks ways to improve the quality of our reviews and shorten timelines. Currently, new research articles receive their first decision on average within 40 days of initial submission. Manuscripts that do not get sent to review receive a rapid response form the journal; on average, these decisions are sent to authors within 13 days of submission. Once a paper has been accepted, it spends an average of 46 days in production until publication. However, we feel these numbers can also be improved, and in the coming months we look forward to implementing revised or new practices and procedures to achieve those goals. In addition to its long-standing commitment to excellent and high quality science, in the coming years PLOS NTDs will continue a strong emphasis on advocacy and shaping NTD health and economic policy. We feel that our papers have helped to inform, advocate, and ultimately shape important financial commitments from the US and UK governments to support global NTD control and elimination efforts, as well as research and development for new control tools, i.e., drugs, insecticides, diagnostics, and vaccines. We believe that PLOS NTDs papers have also positively influenced government leaders and key private donors. In this issue, we present two special collections of articles published to date that have received a disproportionately frequent number of viewings. The first is a series of review articles contributed by Dr. Hotez and his colleagues on geopolitical aspects of the NTDs, including information on the distribution of the most important NTDs in South Asia, Central Asia, Oceania, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, the US, and the Canadian Arctic, published in PLOS NTDs over the last five years. The second collection, “Top Ten”, celebrates the success of the most viewed research articles—the top two in each year of our existence to date. We are also looking to feature and celebrate the achievements of our global community of NTD scientists and institutions with a series of Historical Profiles and Perspectives that will be published in the course of the coming year. The inaugural Historical Profile will highlight Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Medicas (CIDEIM) from Cali, Colombia. We want to get to know you better and learn from your experiences and achievements–please contribute to this series! Finally, we want to thank our outstanding managing editorial staff led by Marina Kukso in the San Francisco office, and the unwavering support of the PLOS leadership and board. To restate, our major purpose remains to serve the NTD community of scholars and public health experts. We exist for your benefit and look forward to hearing from you on the ways in which we can improve how we can help the world's “bottom billion” afflicted by the NTDs.

Pain Medicine has grown rapidly over its first 16 years thanks to authors from around the world who have contributed their scholarly work for review and publication as well as to the dedication of its editorial board, editorial staff, reviewers, and publisher. This January 2016 issue of Pain Medicine is the first with our new publishing partner, Oxford University Press (OUP), with whom we have forged a very strong 5 year publishing agreement. Oxford, fully aware of the growth of our field and the important roles of our three sponsoring societies (American Academy of Pain Medicine [AAPM], the Spine Intervention Society [SIS], and the Faculty of Pain Medicine at the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists [FPM ANZCA]) in national and international pain medicine, believe, as we do, that Pain Medicine has a bright future. I am most grateful to leaders from these societies as well as from members of our own editorial board (particularly Drs. Bogduk, Harden, Lamer, Maus, and Webster), who assisted in this process. Oxford’s Pain Medicine team, led by Rachel Warren, has worked diligently with our managing editor, Colleen Healy, and editorial and AAPM staff to guarantee a smooth transition from Wiley. Managing publisher Alison Labbate, a strong partner in growing Pain Medicine at Blackwell and then Wiley after their merger, has helped smooth the transition, and we are most grateful for her, and her team’s, service over the years. Oxford joins our Pain Medicine enterprise at an important time in the history of pain medicine research, practice, and policy. The costs of the public health problem of pain and its consequence—opioid over-use—have made health services research increasingly important. We must now consider a population-based approach to managing costs and to improving safety and quality-of-life outcomes, with a focus on primary prevention (engaging people …

I congratulate the Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics (JRM) on the publication of its 30th anniversary issue. As one of JRM’s past Editors-in- Chief, I am extremely pleased and proud of this great achievement. JRM was the first journal dealing with robotics and mechatronics in the world when it was launched thirty years ago. Since then, the journal has made a strong impact on the robotics and mechatronics field. It has been hard for the journal to provide high quality issues for so many years. I would like to sincerely express my great respect to Mr. Hayashi, founder and former president of Fuji Technology Press Ltd.; former Editors-in-Chief Prof. Yamafuji, Prof. Fukuda, and Prof. Kaneko; the current Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Takita; and our colleagues, including the editorial board and editorial staff, for their hard work. I would also like to express my great appreciation to all the authors, reviewers, and readers for their superb contributions. This grand thirty-year achievement could not have been attained without all their contributions. I was Editor-in-Chief for seven years ‒ volumes 19 through 25 ‒ beginning in January 2007. I enjoyed my role as Editor-in-Chief, since many young, talented researchers and engineers took part in the editorial process, and I could discuss with them how we would achieve a high-quality journal. I remember clearly how hard they worked to edit superlative volumes by proposing and organizing special issues with up-to-date topics. During that period, we had the good fortune of collaborating with the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME). They supported us in providing committee members for our editorial board, and in collecting and reviewing the many excellent papers. I would also express my thanks to JSME for their abundant and generous support. Because of it, JRM achieved a high reputation and contributed to both academia and industry. Today there are many relevant journals in the world. Competing with them and producing an even higher quality journal than ever before are the most critical issues in the next step of JRM’s advancement. I applaud the current editorial board members and staff and expect JRM to become the very top journal in the field. In conclusion, I hope I can celebrate with you ten and twenty years from now, again and again! Tatsuo Arai

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Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2008: Content Refinement, Continuing Medical Education Credit, Web Site Improvements, and More

Offers comments, intended for writers of language arts education articles, discussing both positive and negative aspects of the writing that the editors and editorial board and staff of this journal have seen in the writing submitted over the past few years.

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Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2007: Enriching Our Service to Authors and Readers

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