Continuing the JCEM Mission With Its New Editorial Team

Assuming the Editorship of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism is an awesome and personally humbling proposition. A host of wonderful and invaluable insights into the diagnosis and treatment of endocrine diseases has been published in the JCEM since its birth in 1941. Many people—authors, reviewers, editors—have worked together to disseminate new basic and clinical knowledge for our collective and increasingly complex endocrine subspecialties. As has been the trend in general internal medicine, we are now witnessing general endocrinologists who are very comfortable within their own areas of expertise but are not so certain when it comes to diagnosing and treating certain endocrine diseases outside their comfort zones. This is understandable, given the glut of information, peer-reviewed or not, both in print and on the internet, that bombards us on a daily basis. Nonetheless, we all want to be more holistic than reductionist. This state of affairs precisely leads me to my overall vision and mission for the JCEM. I want the JCEM to provide you with a broad spectrum of information that is up to date, and at the same time inclusive of our scientific history. We can do this because it is our good fortune to have countless authors who want to publish in the JCEM, a huge number of able reviewers who critically read thousands of manuscript submissions a year, and a group of Associate Editors with overlapping areas of expertise who ensure completion of our mission to publish only the very best for you to read and use to further your own research and/or practice. We should all be excited and humbled to be part of this awesome enterprise. We will make some changes in the Journal over the next few months and perhaps years, most of which I will not divulge now but will encourage you to discover. One sustained effort will be to reduce the bulk of the printed version of the JCEM and to be reasonably more selective of what we publish. The JCEM content will also live on our new online platform, Literatum by Atypon, so you’ll be able to access articles wherever you are. You’ll witness firsthand a more dramatic innovation during the upcoming ENDO 2015 meeting in March in San Diego, California. The JCEM is inaugurating a session called “The Best of JCEM 2014.” Its purpose is to invite authors of manuscripts that were the most highly scored by our Editors and reviewers in 2014. During this session, you will hear original research presentations from 10 speakers, each representing a different subspecialty area, who will describe their published work as well as more recent unpublished information. The goals of this session are to help all of us keep up with all of endocrinology, maintain our intellectual breadth, provide a great opportunity for fellows and other younger scientists to gain the bully pulpit, and celebrate the creative process we have that fuels the JCEM’s unique educational enterprise. Our overall goal is to retain the best of the JCEM and at the same time build on the excellent performances provided by prior Editors-In-Chief. Among these dedicated people I want to single out my immediate predecessor, Len Wartofsky. He has been a superb role model of unfailing service, tough integrity, and quiet intellectualism. It is upon his shoulders we will stand as we follow our vision to extend the excellence of the JCEM to even greater heights. I am excited about working with our new set of Associate Editors, who represent the whole of endocrinology, from bench to bedside, and will ensure that we publish the best clinical work and research: Alvin Matsumoto, MD, FACP; Anthony Heaney, MD, PhD; Anuja Dokras, MD; Dianne Figlewicz Lattemann, PhD; Robert Eckel, MD; Ele Ferrannini, MD; Matthew Rin-