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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007;134:1393-1396
© 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Editorial

Passing the torch

Andrew S. Wechsler, MD*

Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa.

Received for publication September 26, 2007; accepted for publication September 26, 2007.

* Address for reprints: Andrew S. Wechsler, MD, Drexel University College of Medicine, Chair, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 230 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1192. (Email: Andrew.Wechsler@DrexelMed.edu; jtcvs@drexel.edu).

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Eight years ago, the leadership of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) granted me the privilege of serving as the seventh editor of The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. The time has passed quickly, and because the responsibility for the Journal leadership is about to move into the very able hands of Dr Larry Cohn, I am allowing myself the indulgence of taking a few pages to reflect on what has happened during that time.

Perhaps the single most important decision was to hire Pamela Fried as the managing editor for the Journal. This was the first time in the history of the Association that an editing and publishing professional held this position. It was a critical action, because the Journal was about to undergo the most important change since its inception. Almost global access to the Internet ushered in the era of electronic publishing. This new paradigm resulted in a revolution in the way we did business. Under Pamela Fried’s leadership, the Journal transitioned from a world of courier services, facsimile transmissions, and stacks and stacks of paper articles to one inhabited by a fully electronic article submission and review processing system. It was not an easy transition, because the system that we used initially was barely in its beta phase. The evolution to a working system was guided in great part by Pamela Fried. She, in turn, became mentor and psychotherapist for editors, authors, and reviewers. The era of Web 1.0 was fully upon us, and the processes of submission, review, revision, decision, and publication accelerated rapidly.

We redesigned the Journal to make it more attractive and easier to read. We invited video submissions to enhance the understanding of print and electronic content. We allowed authors to publish extensive appendices, figures, tables, . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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