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EDITORIAL
Success
Success causes growing pains
Speeding up submission to publication
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Since the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases became the official journal of the European League against Rheumatism (EULAR) in 1999, the journal has undergone a time of immense growth—for example:
- Submissions have increased from about 450 in 1999 to an expected 1300 in 2005
- The impact factor has doubled (at 3.827 it is now the highest of the European rheumatology journals)
- Print circulation has more than tripled.
As might be expected, this overwhelming expansion has not been without consequence: the major negative one being an increase in the acceptance to publication time. Measures such as a strictly enforced word count, effective web usage, and an acceptance rate of only 25% have yet to have the desired impact
At the request of the editorial team, the journal’s owners (BMJ Publishing Group and EULAR) have agreed to increase the size of the next six issues of ARD significantly to reduce the
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