Peer Review at JGIM
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Zablocki VA, Milwaukee, WI, USA; 2Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 3VA Center for Innovation to Implementation, Stanford Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford, CA, USA.
J Gen Intern Med DOI: 10.1007/s11606-020-06270-7 © Society of General Internal Medicine (This is a U.S. government work and not under copyright protection in the U.S.; foreign copyright protection may apply) 2020
are challenging and surreal times in which we live. T hese This past year has served as a reminder of how fundamental health is to all aspects of our lives. As the world economy ground to a halt and over a million people worldwide died, we have faced a trial unlike any of us have seen in our lifetime. There has been no similarly globally devastating illness since the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. The health profession has responded to this crisis with unparalleled courage and dedication, to date over 600 have paid with their lives. JGIM would like to thank the many talented people who have volunteered their time to serve as peer reviewers for our journal in the past year (1 July 2019 through 30 June 2020) despite their myriad other responsibilities. Peer review is a cornerstone of scientific publication, and JGIM is indebted to their hard (and voluntary) work. There are many to thank and there is much work to appreciate. In 2019–2020, 1159 reviewers provided a total of 1870 reviews with a mean quality score of 4.6 on a scale of 1–6 (as judged by our JGIM associate editors). Of these, 379 provided at least two reviews, and 158 provided three or more. We are indebted to all for their service. Our reviewers came from 31 countries. While the majority of reviews were from the USA, 10 or more were contributed by reviewers from Australia (n = 33), Brazil (n = 12), Britain (n = 48), Canada (n = 116), China (70), France (n = 13), Germany (n = 30), Israel (n = 17), Italy (n = 10), Japan (n = 26), the Netherlands (n = 28), Singapore (n = 10), Spain (n = 11), Switzerland (n = 27), and Turkey (n = 11). The international pool of reviewers reflects submissions to JGIM. In 2019, submissions came from 57 different countries. While most (n = 1747) were from the USA, 285 came from China, 70 from Canada, 50 from Japan; 19 countries submitted 15 or more manuscripts. Among our peer reviewers, there is a group that stands out. These top peer reviewers performed at least two reviews in 2019, returned all reviews within 21 days, and received a quality score average of five or greater (out of a maximum score of six). An asterisk identifies the 162 reviewers who
meet these criteria. We congratulate them on their service to the academic community and thank them for their efforts on behalf of our journal. JGIM has had a significant increase in submissions in the last few years, increasing from 1624 in 2017 to 2477 in 2019. The pace of submissions has increased dramatically this year as the COVID epidemic created more content, we are on pace to manage over 4000 submissions this year. This has caused con
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