The annual American Journal of Cardiology ( AJC ) editorial board meeting was held on March 30, 2014, at the time of the Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology. A major purpose of the meeting is to bring the board members up to date on activities during the previous year and to thank them for reviewing manuscripts during the year. The meeting began with a discussion by the publisher, Ms. Jane M. Grochowski, who described several exciting initiatives that Elsevier has innovated during the past year for many of their journals, including the AJC . Ms. Grochowski provided a number of additional editorial pages for the AJC during the later months of 2013 and those additional pages allowed us to decrease the lag time from acceptance of a manuscript to its publication from approximately 5 months to its present 3 months. The following editorial matters then were discussed:
- 1.
Introduction of new 2013 editorial board members ( Table 1 ).
Table 1
New 2013 editorial board members
Lars Berglund
James C. Blankenship
Todd M. Brown
Gaetano M. De Ferrari
Ian C. Gilchrist
Christopher Hansen
Elizabeth M. Holper
Paul Muntner
Alexander Opotowsky
Charles S. Roberts
James L. Vacek
- 2.
AJC board members reviewing the most manuscripts in 2013 ( Table 2 ).
Table 2
Top AJC Board Reviewers in 2013
9 Manuscripts Reviewed
8 Manuscripts Reviewed
Marc Cohen
Hugh D. Allen
Lars Berglund
Stephen P. Glasser
James C. Blankenship
Monty M. Bodenheimer
Toby Ross Engel
Eric R. Bates
Antonio Abbate
7 Manuscripts Reviewed
Martin A. Alpert
Christopher Hansen
David L. Brown
Joseph A. Franciosa
H. Vernon Anderson
Donald Carey Harrison
J. Dawn Abbott
Charles E. Rackley
Jeffrey A. Brinker
Jeroen J. Bax
Johnson Francis
Joseph A. Hill
Richard L. Page
Pablo Avanzas
Steven N. Singh
Gerald V. Naccarelli
Ted E. Feldman
- 3.
Top non-board reviewers for the AJC in 2013 ( Table 3 ). The proven non-board reviewers are the obvious ones to replace “resting” present board members.
Table 3
Top AJC non-board reviewers in 2013
9 Manuscripts Reviewed
8 Manuscripts Reviewed
Neil Filipchuk
Luigi Fiocca
Robert John Mentz
Matthew E. Harinstein
Roger M. Mills
7 Manuscripts Reviewed
Olivier François Bertrand
Gülmisal Güder
Danny Chu
Thomas Kahan
Eugene H. Chung
Tomoko Sugiyama Kato
Fabrizio D’Ascenzo
Malte Kelm
Roberto Elosua
Miklos David Kertai
Dmitriy N. Feldman
Alexander Mazur
Tamas Forster
Gjin Ndrepepa
Akira Fujiki
Giampaolo Niccoli
Philip Green
Parin J. Patel
- 4.
Manuscripts submitted to the AJC in 2013 ( Table 4 ). A total of 2,904 manuscripts were submitted in 2013 and 665 (23%) were accepted.
Table 4
Manuscripts submitted to the AJC in 2013
Total
2,904 (100%)
Withdrawn
−23
Accepted
665 (23%)
Declined
2,216 (77%)
- 5.
Sources of manuscripts submitted to the AJC in 2013 ( Table 5 ). Of the 2,881 manuscripts submitted (excludes the 23 withdrawn), 1,922 came from non-USA countries and 332 (17%) were accepted; 959 came from the USA and 333 (35%) were accepted.
Table 5
Sources of manuscripts submitted to the AJC in 2013
Source
Submitted
Accepted
Non-USA
1,922
332 (17%)
USA
959
333 (35%)
Total
2,881
665 (23%) 
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