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From the Editor Usually the editorial board of The American Journal of Cardiology (AJC) meets at the Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology which takes place usually in March of each year The number of manuscripts submitted to the AJC in 2019 and the number accepted and declined is shown in Table 2 [ ]an average of 64 manuscripts were submitted to the AJC each week in 2919 Name Manuscripts reviewed Danny Chu 12 Gregory Lip 10 Pablo Avanzas 10 Natale Daniel Brunetti 9 Raymond McKay 9 James Vacek 8 Charles Maynard 8 Bharat K Kantharia 8 Johnson Francis 8 Victoria Delgado 8 Todd M Brown 8 Eric R Bates 8 Toby Ross Engel 7 James Blankenship 7 Martin A Alpert 7 Christopher Hansen 7 Akira Fijiki 7 Jerome Fleg 7 Louis H Stein 6 R Thomas Collins II 6 Marc Cohen 6 Hugh D Allen 6 Table 1 Top board reviewers (top 12%) (among 179) for the AJC in 2019 Total submitted 3,329 * Accepted 562 (17%) Declined 2,767 (83%) Table 2 Manuscripts submitted to the AJC in 2019 Year Number submitted Number accepted Percent accepted 1983 1,234 643 52% 1984 1,605 747 46% 1985 1,707 645 38% 1986 1,574 616 39% 1987 1,525 695 46% 1988 1,496 636 42% 1989 1,740 699 40% 1990 1,717 662 38% 1991 1,615 680 42% 1992 1,873 664 35% 1993 1,997 619 31% 1994 1,783 604 34% 1995 1,844 668 36% 1996 1,930 701 36% 1997 1,898 768 40% 1998 1,992 631 31% 1999 2,170 703 32% 2000 2,226 630 28% 2001 2,068 682 33% 2002 2,171 683 31% 2003 2,190 783 36% 2004 2,109 842 39% 2005 2,661 984 37% 2006 3,016 653 21% 2007 3,184 710 22% 2008 2,888 709 25% 2009 2,864 728 25% 2010 2,893 684 24% 2011 2,951 702 24% 2012 2,713 685 25% 2013 2,904 665 23% 2014 3,057 670 22% 2015 3,147 660 21% 2016 3,198 658 21% 2017 3,360 648 19% 2018 3,479 624 19% 2019 3,329 562 17% Total 86,109 25,344 29% Table 3 Number of manuscripts submitted and accepted in the AJC from 1983 through 2019 (36 years;during the present editorship)* EDITORIAL PAGES 3,891 Articles 3,735 (96%) Staff and Editorial Board 48 (1%) Table of Contents 66 (1 7%) Readers’ Comments (total) [replies] 42 (38) [0] (1%) TYPES OF ARTICLES - TOTAL 573 Multi-patient studies 532 Case Reports 4 Electrocardiographic Reports 6 Editorials 6 From-the-Editor Columns 2 Historic Studies 5 Reviews 18 TOPICS OF ARTICLES – TOTAL 573 Coronary Artery Disease 165 Arrhythmias and Conduction Disturbances 71 Valvular Heart Disease 91 Heart Failure 63 Miscellaneous (+1 interview) 75 Preventative Cardiology 32 Congenital Heart Disease 28 Cardiomyopathy 34 Systemic Hypertension 8 Historical Studies 5 Table 4 Total number of pages, types, and topics of articles published in the AJC in 2019
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