Journal of the American Medical Directors Association: The State of the Journal

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No. 1 Author (Ref No.) Subject No. Citations 1. Morley JE et al Nutritional recomm...mgt...sarcopenia 37 2. Braddy KK et al Vitamin D...VA LTC population 32 3. Voyer P et al Detecting delirium...demented LTC 30 4. Kuo S et al Feeding-tube use...advanced dementia 29 5. Morley JE Vitamin D redux 27 6. Morley JE Polypharmacy in the nursing home 26 7. Aman E et al Supervised exercise to reduce agitation 25 8. Argiles JM et al Consensus on cachexia definitions 25 9. Morley JE Anorexia, weight loss, and frailty 24 10. Gobbens RJ et al Determinants of frailty 24 11. Fitzgerald SP et al Comorbidities and tx/polypharmacy 24 12. Kutsal YG et al Polypharmacy in the elderly 22 13. Nijs K et al Malnutrition and mealtime ambiance 21 14. Jalbert JJ et al Antipsychotic use...hip fx...dementia 21 15. Gobbens RJ et al Definition of frailty: Opinions of experts 21 16. Grant WB et al Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D disparities 21 17. Feldman SM et al Diabetes mgt...nursing home 2008 20 18. Rowland FN et al Impact of med dir cert-quality of care 19 19. Flaherty JH et al Development...mental status vital sign 18 20. Ishii S et al Apathy: A common psychiatry syndrome 18 21. Lee M et al Dementia and life expectancy 18 22. Quigley P et al Fall prevention and injury protection 18 The past few years have shown excellent growth in the Journal, both in quality and quantity. In 2012, we increased the number of pages and, by also having online-only publications, greatly increased the number of articles published. We are very happy to announce that in 2013, the Journal will be published monthly. In parallel with the increase in number and quality of articles submitted, there has been a continuous increase in the Journal’s Impact Factor (Figure 1).1 The Journal now has the highest impact factor of all clinical geriatric journals and the fourth highest impact of all geriatrics and gerontology journals for 2011. The most cited articles in 2009 and 2010 (the years used to calculate the impact factor) are given in Table 1. These articles covered areas such as nutrition, vitamin D, polypharmacy, frailty, and sarcopenia. The article demonstrating that the medical director certification from the American Medical Directors Association improves nursing home quality was also highly cited.2 The improving quality of the Journal is further demonstrated by the high number of citations already received by articles published in the Journal in 2012 (Table 2). Two of these, the article on the global agenda for nursing homes from International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics3 and the Rome consensus paper on sarcopenia4 have already been cited more than 20 times. Out of interest, Table 3 provides