Volume 60 and Most of Volume 61 Are Brought to You by William Morain, MD

摘要

Around the turn of the century, I was honored with the editorship of a subspecialty journal.The journal was a venerable one in its field, but its editorial management had faltered somewhat through an experiment in multicontinental editorial offices. Consequently, some publication dates were missed, and many manuscripts were suspended in a decentralized review process.These circumstances were apparently discouraging to authors. Contribution decreased over time. After accepting the editorship, I asked the publisher for a current inventory of manuscripts. I eventually received a cardboard box with about 16 articles in various stages of review and revision. My first months as editor of that journal were principally a scramble for copy, and I remain grateful to all the colleagues who found projects in different comers and desks of their labs and sent them in to a hungry journal.My experience at Annals has been quite different. As part of my welcome to the editorship, I received a spread sheet listing over 300 articles that had been reviewed and accepted for publication. All of volume 60 and volume 61 are composed of this lode of articles edited by Bill Morain. So far, my role relative to the journal's content has been to collate his wealth of material for individual issues.