Editor's Message
Message from Dr. Amira Klip, Editor-in-Chief
Our current leadership of AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism
reached its first one and a half years this July 1. I cannot overemphasize
how appreciative I am of the Associate Editors and of all the Editorial
Board members and Guest Reviewers for their input and work throughout this
time. And we have some exciting milestones to communicate:
AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism became the
fastest-reviewing one of all the AJP series of journals, with a turnover
time from submission to first decision of 21 days.
We have had record acceptance of submitted Invited
Review articles (which are peer reviewed), and many of these are currently
“in press;” check them out!
Physiology is a very diverse discipline, and so are
studies of endocrine and metabolic scope, and the Journal receives many more
submissions than it can publish. Along with the Associate Editors, we have
established clearer guidelines to reviewers in order to continue to improve
the selection of the most exciting studies. Among them, one can distinguish
studies that are mechanistic in nature from those that are correlative or
descriptive. While there is undeniable scientific value in correlative or
descriptive studies, the level of sophistication of today’s analytic tools
allows one to integrate processes in a mechanistic fashion. The
Journal will give prominence to mechanistic studies, all along recognizing
that studies in humans are less amenable to the invasive probing that often
allows scrutiny of mechanisms, but these can still be vastly and deeply
analytical. We believe that AJP: Endocrinology and Metabolism can thereby
become a home for mechanistic cellular and animal studies and for
sophisticated and insightful human studies.
Of course, we will continue to implement the criteria
of relevance of the question asked; scientific rigor, controls, and
statistical analysis; suitability of interpretation; and clarity of
presentation. On occasion, manuscripts that are far removed from fulfilling
the above-discussed elements of depth, breadth, and insight will be given an
expeditious review with feedback from two editors, without proceeding to a
more in-depth review. We believe that this will give authors the opportunity
to make decisions on subsequent steps without further delay.
We welcome your comments and look forward to continuing
our work to make AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism a preeminent
journal in our field.
Sincerely,
Amira Klip
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