The end-of-the year 2020 issue: on disasters and challenges, research and the power of love
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EDITORIAL
The end‑of‑the year 2020 issue: on disasters and challenges, research and the power of love Giorgina Barbara Piccoli1,2 Published online: 26 November 2020 © Italian Society of Nephrology 2020
The visionary is the only true realist Federico Fellini. When the year 2020 began some of us made jokes based on the fact that, in Italian, the word “venti” means both winds and twenty. “It will be a stormy year” they said. It was indeed. Closing this final issue of 2020 was an occasion to reflect upon how our lives have changed, and to do so from the peculiar perspective of our journal. This end-of-the year issue gathers a series of interesting reviews, elicited on the occasion of the 60th Congress of the Italian Society of Nephrology; these span from diabetic nephrology, to onconephrology, dialysis, and transplantation (https://doi.org/10.1007/s40620-020-00922-x, https://doi. org/10.1007/s40620-020-00724-1, https://doi.org/10.1007/ s40620-020-00820-2, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40620-02000793- 2, https: //doi.org/10.1007/s40620 -020-00787- 0, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40620-020-00750-z, https://doi. org/10.1007/s40620 -020-00726- z). The series is commented upon by De Nicola in a lively editorial that starts with a quote from the great filmmaker Federico Fellini: “I was led by hand to choose a job that is the only one to me, the only one that allows me achieving myself in the most joyful, most immediate, form” (https://doi.org/10.1007/s40620-02000856-4) and, indeed, the editorial, submitted between the two waves of COVID-19 underlines the importance of being a nephrologist and being proud of it. This reinvestment and sense of belonging can also be read as one of the reasons for the striking increase in submissions that challenged several editors of scientific journals in this difficult year. Journal of Nephrology will end this year with over 1300, if not over 1400 submissions, a * Giorgina Barbara Piccoli [email protected] 1
University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Nephrologie, Centre Hospitalier Le Mans, Le Mans, France
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considerable increase over the approximately 800 submissions we received last year. Only a minority are papers on various aspects of COVID-19, and most of them regard our core profession. Similar increases have been observed in other Nephrology or Internal Medicine journals. A cynical view holds that physicians probably had more time to dedicate to writing during the various phases of lockdown since they were less distracted by travelling, congresses, and, overall life; however, sharing the optimistic visionary outlook Fellini calls realism, I was impressed by the high quality of the submitted papers. They are not just old articles pulled out of the bottom drawer. They are often elegant, innovative, and well done. Furthermore, since the first phase of the crisis, I was struck by the deep involvement of many colleagues that, while fighting all day on the front lines against the pandemic, kept on answering, reviewing, editing, often late at night. Please, accept my deepes
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