Taking Inventory of JNP

Abstract

t has been great fun as we move into our 10th anniversary of publication of JNP: The Journal for Nurse Practitioners to both look back and look ahead. Our Ifirst issue, in July/August 2005, had 3 clinical feature articles and 8 columns. By the next issue that year we had 5 clinical features and added the crossword puzzle. Many of those articles and columns were written by my NP friends who jumped in to help when we realized we had only about 4 months to get the first issue into print. The Prescription Pad, Diagnostic Tips, Point/CounterPoint, and Legal Limits columns have continued from the very first issue, but the only founding column editor still writing now is Legal Limits columnist Carolyn Buppert. By contrast, this issue of JNP includes 10 feature articles, 4 brief reports, 2 online-only features for faculty, a book review, and 6 departmental columns, as well as the crossword puzzle. Each issue has had at least 1 article for continuing education credit and has also carried NP organizational and legislative/lobbying information written by our organizational leaders. Throughout our years of publication, we have had the same journal publisher, Nina Milton, and the same managing editor, Dawn Nahlen, both from Elsevier. JNP has grown and developed in the publishing world because of the advocacy of these 2 individuals and because of the outstanding Elsevier team involved in every step of the journal publishing process. There are many people behind the scenes who are invisible but indispensable to the publication of JNP. I also realize that many of you have been authors, reviewers, and editorial board members for us, as well as readers from the very first issue. We get lots of mail about how you use JNP in your curriculum in both academic and clinical courses. We are glad to be such an important part of your success! Our thanks go out especially to you, our faithful readers, and all who have helped us in the past and continue to work so hard today. I still go back to my friends for help—and my friends now include many of you. So, what can be new? Is there anything you don’t know about JNP after all these years? Things you might not know about JNP: If you submit an article but do not use the American Medical Association format that we follow, the copyeditor will convert the manuscript to the proper format. If you submit a quality article to JNP that is not appropriate for our readership, we can transfer the submission to a sister journal published by Elsevier for their editorial evaluation. Elsevier publishes over 4,000 journals internationally. All Elsevier journals are indexed in ScienceDirect, a database to which Elsevier provides access for many libraries and hospitals in developing countries. Thus, in addition to the 90,000 subscriptions of each issue for NPs in the United States, we also have a large online international readership. When articles published in JNP include a reference to a previously published Elsevier article indexed in ScienceDirect, online readers can click on the citation for those articles and view the whole article.