Editorial-The sweet sixteen special!

Sixteen years! Our own Medical Journal of Shree Birendra Hospital is in the middle of charming teen years now. Yes, it is definitely sweet sixteen! And yes, it has definitely come a long way since its inception and we must congratulate ourselves and feel proud that we are here, and with more zeal to improve and learn. I would like to thank all our readers, authors, reviewers as well as editors and mentors of NepJol for their continuous support and love which has kept the journal alive and kicking for so many years!First of all, we are happy to share some news. We have recently updated our journal guidelines for authors. We have tried to simplify the whole process of submission. We hope that the simpler guidelines will make the authors more comfortable to submit their articles online. We have also been successful in adding many prominent national and international editors to our editorial board. We have added Dr Samir Lamichhane from Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal (Department of Pharmacology), Dr Manisha Bajracharya from KIST Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Imadole, Lalitpur (Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology), Dr. Barsha Bajracharya from Shree Birendra Hospital, NAIHS, Kathmandu, Nepal (Department of Dental Surgery) as our Editorial Board members. We must consider ourselves very privileged that some reputed academicians have joined our team as international editors. We are extremely honored to have Prof. Dr. Babill Stray-Pederson, University of Oslo, Norway (Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology), Prof. Dr. Deepak Batura from London North West Healthcare NHS, London, UK (Department of Urosurgery), Dr. Dipendra Raj Pandeya from Al Jouf University, Saudi Arabia (Department of Clinical Biochemistry), Dr. Santosh Pandit from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (Department of Biology and Biological Engineering) and Dr. Usman Mahboob from Khyber Medical University, Pakistan (Institute of Health Professions Education And Research) as international editors in our team. We are very excited to have such distinguished mentors as our team members. Thank you and welcome to all.With the vigor and enthusiasm of additional editors, we have set some goals for our journal. First and foremost, a journal has to be punctual. We need to maintain the punctuality of our journal. Presently, we have been lagging behind in publication of issues. With two consecutive future publications, we aim to publish further issues on specified time biannually (Jan and July).Secondly, with the guidance and support of additional editors, we hope that our journal would flourish more in the national as well as international field. For this, we expect that we shall be able to involve all the editorial board members in the journal equally and effectively. We are certain that their invaluable contribution would be vital for the progress of our journal. Thirdly, we have initiated steps towards indexing and hope that we shall soon get indexed into reputed indexing services. With better indexing, we believe that the overall scope of our journal will widen and we shall have broader and discerning audience. Fourthly, we aim to collaborate with different organizations and conduct regular training sessions for our authors in scientific manuscript writing. We firmly believe that training is imperative for the authors to improve their writing skills. With better quality of authors, needless to reiterate, we will get better articles and our journal would be at par with any other well-known medical journal that we look up to. But whatever we bring out, without feedback, we-the editorial team-too will not learn, nor grow. I would like to conclude by requesting all our readers, authors, reviewers, editors, as well as mentors to give us feedback and comments, so that we can strive continuously for betterment. Lastly, I would like to congratulate and express our gratitude to the editors who have come on board. Welcome and thank you all once again.

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Editorial

Acute Medicine Journal ◽

10.52964/amja.0592 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 2-2

Author(s):

Chris Roseveare ◽

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Editorial Team ◽

Patient Specific ◽

Service Improvement ◽

Single Individual ◽

National Goal ◽

Acute Medicine ◽

North West ◽

The Past

Clinicians working in acute medicine will be familiar with change. The speciality and the environment we work in has changed continually over the past 15 years – I often reflect that no two years have been the same since I started working in the field back in 1999. Change is important, in order to achieve best practice, but sustaining such improvements can be an enormous challenge. The regular turnover of medical staff, local management restructuring and the constantly shifting National goal posts often conspire against us. It is easy for ‘changefatigue’ to set in. Submissions to this journal often describe local audits and service improvement projects which have raised standards: a low baseline may result in a statistically significant improvement from a relatively small intervention – often an education programme or poster campaign to raise awareness of the problem. However, what happens next is far more important: can the improvement be sustained when the key driver behind the project – the enthusiast – moves on, after their 4 month block of acute medicine comes to an end? One year on, we are often back where we started. Two articles in this edition appear to have achieved the Holy Grail of sustainability. In the paper by Joanne Botten from Musgrove Park, door to antibiotic time was improved for patients with neutopaenic sepsis by introducing a system whereby the antibiotics could be administered without waiting for a prescription to be written. The combination of a neutropaenic sepsis alert card and a patient-specific direction empowered the nurses and patients to ensure administration within an hour of arrival in over 90% of cases, a figure which has been sustained for over a year. Sustainable change is often facilitated by modifications in paperwork, but crucially the project’s success was not reliant on a single individual. The value of engaging with the wider team is also shown in Gary Misselbook’s paper describing sustained improvement in the layout and utility of an AMU procedure room. The authors describe how repeated attempts by different registrars had failed to achieve more than temporary reorganisation; the change was only sustained when nursing, infection control and administrative staff became involved in the process. The multiprofessional nature of the AMU is one of its greatest assets – we would all do well to remember this when instigating change. On a similar note, observant readers may have noticed some changes to the editorial board of this journal – I am delighted to welcome Dr Tim Cooksley, acute physician from Manchester and Dr Prabath Nanayakkara from the VUMC in the Netherlands. Tim came through the acute medicine training programme in the North West and his role in the acute oncology service at the Christie Hospital as well as his active involvement in the SAMBA project over recent years brings an important perspective to the editorial team. Prabath has been heavily involved with the development of acute medicine in the Netherlands and co-hosted the successful SAMSTERDAM meeting in 2014. His international perspective will be welcome as we attempt to extend the reach of Acute Medicine to our European neighbours over the coming years. I am very grateful to Nik Patel, Mark Jackson and Ashwin Pinto for their help and support during the past decade and wish them well for the future.

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Publishing quantitative careers research: challenges and recommendations

Career Development International ◽

10.1108/cdi-08-2021-0217 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Bert Schreurs ◽

Angus Duff ◽

Pascale M. Le Blanc ◽

Thomas H. Stone

Keyword(s):

Design Methodology ◽

Team Member ◽

Research Question ◽

Editorial Team ◽

Board Members ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Content Type ◽

Insight Into

Purpose This article aims to provide prospective authors guidelines that will hopefully enable them to submit more competitive manuscripts to journals publishing careers research.Design/methodology/approach Based on their experience as an author, reviewer and editorial team member, the authors identify the main criteria that a quantitative study must meet to be considered for publication in international peer-reviewed journals covering career-related topics. They emphasize the importance of contributing to the careers literature and of designing the study in accordance with the research question.Findings Manuscripts are rejected because they are insufficiently innovative, and/or because sample, instruments and design are not appropriate to answer the research question at hand. Cross-sectional designs cannot be used to answer questions of mediation but should not be discarded automatically since they can be used to address other types of questions, including questions about nesting, clustering of individuals into subgroups, and to some extent, even causality.Originality/value The manuscript provides an insight into the decision-making process of reviewers and editorial board members and includes recommendations on the use of cross-sectional data.

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Editorial

Ghana Medical Journal ◽

10.4314/gmj.v55i1.1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 55 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

David Ofori-Adjei

Keyword(s):

Medical Journal ◽

Board Members ◽

New Members

Additional Editorial Board members The Ghana Medical Journal extends a special welcome to new members appointed to the Editorial Board. Themembers are to complement the work of the current membership of the Board.

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Corrigendum

OTJR Occupation Participation and Health ◽

10.1177/1539449218784132 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 219-219

Keyword(s):

Editorial Team ◽

Board Members ◽

The Core ◽

Assistant Editor

Classen, S. (2018). Editorial: Growth and Advances of OTJR. OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health, 38, 3-5. DOI: 10.1177/1539449217747419 On page 3 of OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health Volume 38(1), the core editorial team was incorrectly identified. The corrected sentence is provided below: Specifically—we have doubled the size of the core editorial team (which consists of editor-in-chief, assistant editor, and editorial fellow), more than doubled the size of the editorial board members (which consists of associate editors and review board members), and created and filled 13 new positions on the editorial board.

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Editorial

BORDER CROSSING ◽

10.33182/bc.v11i1.1707 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 1-2

Author(s):

Ali Tilbe

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Border Crossing ◽

Editorial Team ◽

Board Members ◽

Social Sciences And Humanities ◽

Refereeing Process ◽

Open Issue

On behalf of the editorial team of Border Crossing journal, I am very delighted to introduce the first issue of the twenty first volume. In the first instance, our journal is an international multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that has been in publication since 2011 and publishes quality articles from any fields of Social Sciences and Humanities. We would like to emphasize that Border Crossing has switched to the “open issue” model and promises to complete the rapid refereeing process without delay according to the wishes of the authors. Thus, we publish two issues per year covering the first and second half of each year. Herewith, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to our authors, reviewers, editorial board members, co-editors and readers who contributed to the development and success of our Journal.

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