Annals' 70th Anniversary: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
Authors: Frank Davidoff
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1997)

Editorials1 July 1997Annals' 70th Anniversary: A Look Back and a Look AheadFrank Davidoff, MD, EditorFrank Davidoff, MD, EditorSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-127-1-199707010-00013 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail With this issue, Annals marks its 70th anniversary. In a 1977 essay honoring the journal's 50th anniversary [1], former editor Edward Huth and our current Executive Editor Kathleen Case looked back at a journal that, in the 1930s, was published monthly; had only a few thousand readers; cost only $7.00 for a year's subscription; and received only about 235 manuscripts a year, mostly from the members of the American College of Physicians. Those first 50 years produced many of the journal's enduring features, including two of particular importance that were introduced by then editor J. Russell Elkinton: peer review in ...References1. Huth EJ, Van Steenburgh KC. Annals of Internal Medicine: the first 50 years. Ann Intern Med. 1977; 87:103-10. Google Scholar2. Mulrow CD. The medical review article: state of the science. Ann Intern Med. 1987; 106:485-8. Google Scholar3. L'Abbe KA, Detsky AS, O'Rourke K. Meta-analysis in clinical research. Ann Intern Med. 1987; 107:224-33. Google Scholar4. Haynes RB, Mulrow DC, Huth EJ, Altman DG, Gardner MJ. More informative abstracts revisited. Ann Intern Med. 1990; 113:69-76. Google Scholar5. Braitman LE. Confidence intervals extract clinically useful information from data [Editorial]. Ann Intern Med. 1988; 108:296-8. Google Scholar6. Bailar JD, Mosteller F. Guidelines for statistical reporting in articles for medical journals. Ann Intern Med. 1988; 108:266-73. Google Scholar7. Goodman SN, Berlin JA. The use of predicted confidence intervals when planning experiments and the misuse of power when interpreting results. Ann Intern Med. 1994; 121:200-6. Google Scholar8. Braitman LE, Davidoff F. Predicting clinical states in individual patients. Ann Intern Med. 1996; 125:406-12. Google Scholar9. Goodman SN, Berlin J, Fletcher SW, Fletcher RH. Manuscript quality before and after peer review and editing at Annals of Internal Medicine. Ann Intern Med. 1994; 121:11-21. Google Scholar10. Working Group on Recommendations for Reporting Clinical Trials in the Biomedical Literature. Call for comments on a proposal to improve reporting of clinical trials in the biomedical literature: a position paper. Ann Intern Med. 1994; 121:894-5. Google Scholar11. Gagne J. Netview. Medical Software Reviews. January 1997; 9. Google Scholar12. Senge P. The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization. New York: Doubleday; 1990:6. Google Scholar13. David PD. Computer and dynamo: the modern productivity paradox in a not-too-distant mirror. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Center for Economic Policy Research; CEPR Publication No. 172; 1989. Google Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byScientific Publication in Emergency Medicine: Imprint on the Future 1 July 1997Volume 127, Issue 1Page: 74-75KeywordsComputersForecastingInformation technologyIntelligenceInternetLibrariesPeer reviewRandomized trialsScientistsSystematic reviews Issue Published: 1 July 1997 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1997 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...