The 2011 meeting of the Editorial Board of The American Journal of Cardiology ( AJC ) was held on April 3, 2011, in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the time of the Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology. The meeting’s purpose was to review the AJC ‘s publication results in 2010, to recognize particularly those AJC board members who reviewed the most manuscripts in 2010, and to receive suggestions and criticisms from board members on ways to improve the journal. The meeting went as follows:
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Introduction of new editorial board members ( Table 1 ).
Table 1
New Editorial Board members for 2010
Evan Applebaum
James P. Daubert
Giovanni Filardo
Hani Jneid
Lori Jean Mosca
Hartzell V. Schaff
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AJC board members reviewing the most manuscripts in 2010 . The publisher provided plaques to each of the 7 top AJC reviewers for 2010 ( Table 2 ), and they read as follows:
Table 2
Top American Journal of Cardiology Editorial Board reviewers in 2010
Name
Manuscripts Reviewed
Antonio Abbate
10
Pablo Avanzas
9
Monty M. Bodenheimer
9
Marc Cohen
9
Toby R. Engel
9
Gregory Y.H. Lip
9
Don Poldermans
9
In appreciation to
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Top Reviewer
The American Journal of Cardiology
2010
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Number of manuscripts submitted, withdrawn, accepted, and declined in 2010 ( Table 3 ).
Table 3
Manuscripts submitted to The American Journal of Cardiology in 2010
Total
2,917 (100%)
Withdrawn
24
Accepted
684 (24%)
Declined
2,209 (76%)
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Sources of manuscripts submitted to the AJC in 2010 ( Table 4 ).
Table 4
Sources of manuscripts submitted to The American Journal of Cardiology in 2010
Source
Submitted
Accepted
Outside the United States
1,915
344 (18%)
United States
978
340 (35%)
Total
2,893
684 (24%)
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Number of editorial pages, types and topics of articles published in the AJC in 2010 ( Table 5 ).
Table 5
Number of editorial pages and types and topics of reports published in The American Journal of Cardiology in 2010 (Volumes 105 and 106, January 1 to December 15; nonsymposium issues)
Editorial pages—Total
3,769
Reports
3,585
Readers’ Comments (number of comments/number of replies)
65 (68/10)
Staff and Editorial Board
48 (1%)
Contents
67 (2%)
Instructions to authors
4 (0.001%)
Types of articles
626
Multipatient studies
562 (90%)
Case reports
8 (1%)
Reviews
22 (4%)
Editorials
12 (2%)
Editor’s Roundtables (consensus statements)
5 (1%)
Interviews
0
From the Editor columns
4 (1%)
Nonpatient studies
5 (1%)
Historical studies
8 (1%)
Topics of articles
626
Coronary artery disease
252 (40%)
Preventive cardiology
66 (11%)
Arrhythmias and conduction disturbances
41 (7%)
Heart failure
49 (8%)
Valvular heart disease
35 (6%)
Cardiomyopathy
33 (5%)
Congenital heart disease
49 (8%)
Methods
14 (2%)
Systemic hypertension
11 (11%)
Miscellaneous
68 (1%)
Historical studies
8 (2%) 
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