Thank You to the JAMA Surgery Peer Reviewers, Authors, and Readers

Opinion EDITORIAL Thank You to the JAMA Surgery Peer Reviewers, Authors, and Readers Melina R. Kibbe, MD In this issue of JAMA Surgery, we would like to thank and ac- Table. JAMA Surgery Statistics for 2014 knowledge the 263 peer reviewers who reviewed manu- Statistic No. scripts for JAMA Surgery in 2014. We greatly appreciate the Manuscripts received 1208 thoughtfulness, insight, and Overall acceptance rate, % 20 expertise that the reviewers Related article page 373 Original Investigations provided, as well as the time Received 844 they took to conduct these reviews. The peer-review process is indispensable to the success of JAMA Surgery. Acceptance rate, % 15 We would also like to thank the authors who submitted Research Letters manuscripts for consideration for publication in JAMA Sur- Received 62 gery. In 2014, we received a total of 1208 manuscripts, of which Acceptance rate, % 32 844 were Original Investigations, 62 were Research Letters, 58 Viewpoints were Viewpoints, and 60 were Clinical Challenges (Table). The Received 58 remainder included Special Communications, Reviews, Let- Acceptance rate, % 28 ters to the Editor, Letters in Reply, Invited Commentaries, and Clinical Challenges Editorials. We know there are many journals to which au- Received 60 thors can submit their work, and we are honored that so many Acceptance rate, % 22 authors chose to submit their high-quality research to JAMA Manuscripts sent for external peer review, % 30 Surgery. In recognition of this, the 2013 impact factor was 4.3, Peer reviewers 263 ranking JAMA Surgery 11th...