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Phil B. Fontanarosa, MD, MBA; Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, MPH

JAMA. 2007;297:875.

Biomedical journals have an important role in shaping medical science and the practice of medicine. Knowing that information in JAMA is used by physicians and other health care professionals to make decisions about the patients they care for makes the responsibility of editing this journal a humbling experience and, perhaps more importantly, serves as a constant reminder of the major responsibility of ensuring that articles published in JAMA are as clinically relevant, scientifically valid, ethically sound, and accurately reported as possible. Fulfilling this duty and responsibility is made possible because of the active contributions and dedicated involvement of 2 critically important journal constituencies—peer reviewers and authors—to whom we extend our utmost appreciation.

In this issue of JAMA, we are publishing the names of the 3490 peer reviewers who completed manuscript reviews for JAMA in 2006. These reviewers represent nearly every medical specialty and subspecialty, virtually every area of medical research expertise, and more than 40 countries. The rigorous nature and timeliness of the peer review process are reflected by several measures, including JAMA's acceptance rate, turnaround times, and impact factor (Table). We extend our sincere thanks to these peer reviewer consultants for their insightful critiques, thoughtful recommendations, and valuable assistance in contributing to the scientific quality and the integrity of articles published in JAMA.

View this table: [in this window] [in a new window] [as a PowerPoint slide]   Table. JAMA Peer Reviewers, Manuscript Data, and Impact Factor, 2000-2006

We also thank all authors who submitted manuscripts for consideration for publication in JAMA. By virtue of their contributions, these authors provide JAMA readers with important, innovative, high-quality articles that cover the spectrum of medicine and public health, including cutting-edge research discoveries, major clinical trials and other scientific investigations, systematic review articles with clinical relevance and practical application, and scholarly commentaries addressing timely and pressing issues. Through the work of these authors, these articles have the potential to have major influence on medical care and health policy, as JAMA is circulated in print to more than 350 000 readers each week and is available to many more who access JAMA online millions of times each month. We extend our sincere thanks to these physician-scientists, clinical investigators, medical researchers, and other authors for submitting their work to JAMA, and in doing so, communicating their important contributions to JAMA readers, as well as to physicians, other health care professionals, and the public throughout the world.

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Editorials represent the opinions of the authors and JAMA and not those of the American Medical Association.

Author Affiliations: Dr Fontanarosa (phil.fontanarosa{at}jama-archives.org) is Executive Deputy Editor and Dr DeAngelis is Editor-in-Chief, JAMA.

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