The annual editorial board meeting of The American Journal of Cardiology (AJC) was held on April 3, 2016, at the time of the Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology. The major purpose of the meeting is to thank the editorial board members for their considerable help during the previous year in reviewing manuscripts and to seek their suggestions for improving the journal. The meeting began with a discussion by the publisher, Ms. Joan Anuels, who described several initiatives that Elsevier has introduced during the past year for many of the journals, including the AJC. Mr. Brian Jenkins, also of Elsevier, discussed some upcoming supplements. The following editorial matters were then discussed:
- 1)
T op 20 board reviewers for the AJC in 2015 ( Table 1 ).
Table 1
Top 20 board reviewers ( Among 177 ) for the AJC 2015
Name
Manuscripts Reviewed
Akira Fujiki
13
Danny Chu
12
Roberto Elosua
11
Matthew E. Harinstein
11
Jeroen J. Bax
10
Lars Berglund
10
James C. Blankenship
10
Mun K. Hong
10
Gregory Lip
10
Charles E. Rackley
10
James Vacek
10
Monty M. Bodenheimer
9
Marc Cohen
9
Nathan Estes
9
Dmitriy N. Feldman
9
Joseph A. Franciosa
9
Michael R. Gold
9
Christopher Hansen
9
Tomoko Sugiyama Kato
9
Charles Maynard
9
Hugh D. Allen
9
- 2)
Top 18 non-board reviewers for the AJC in 2015 ( Table 2 ).
Table 2
Top 18 non-board reviewers ( Among 4,594 ) for the AJC 2015
Name
Manuscripts Reviewed
Piercarlo Ballo
8
Andrew M. Freeman
8
Munther Homoud
8
Richard Kovacs
8
Tsuneaki Sadanaga
8
Giuseppe Andó
7
Saide Aytekin
7
Roberto Baglini
7
Jacques D Barth
7
Nazario Carrabba
7
Guillaume Clerfond
7
James A de Lemos
7
Yochai Birnbaum
7
Tamas Forster
7
Daiju Fukuda
7
Bernhard Haring
7
Satoshi Higa
7
Carlos Garcia G. Santos-Gallego
7
- 3)
Numbers of manuscripts submitted to the AJC in 2015 and the number accepted ( Table 3 ).
Table 3
Manuscripts submitted to the AJC in 2015
Total submitted
3147 ∗
Number accepted
660 (21%)
Number declined
2,478 (79%) 
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