Journal of Perinatology Editorial Updates 2021

Abstract

Editorial Board members are the engines that make biomedical research journals run. They provide timely, expert manuscript reviews, ensuring the quality of papers published in the journal. They provide commentary in their areas of expertise, often associated with a manuscript they have reviewed. Editorial Board members also act as ambassadors for the journal, soliciting and contributing high-quality manuscripts. They provide ideas for review articles and recommend expert authors, they identify trends in the field and they provide suggestions to improve the journal. These observations are true for members of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Perinatology. Collectively, the efforts of Journal of Perinatology Editorial Board members have resulted in a quadrupling of the number of new articles received annually over the past ten years, identified important manuscripts for publication, provided insightful commentary and reviews on important topics, and contributed to dramatic decreases in time to first decision of reviewed articles. The Journal of Perinatology continues to evolve with the field of medical publishing. Following Springer/Nature, the Journal’s publisher, and many other medical biomedical journals, the Journal is moving to a term-based model of Editorial Board appointment. As of January 1, 2021, membership on the Journal of Perinatology Editorial Board will be via up to 5-year appointments, with previous board members rotating off and new members joining each year. An important goal going forward is increasing diversity of the Editorial Board, including gender, race, ethnic, and geographic diversity, while maintaining a board with a wide range of expertise. As part of this change in Board membership, a fantastic group of new members are joining the Editorial Board this year. They include Sofia Aliaga, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Susan Aucott, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Carl Backes, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Wanda Barfield, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta Georgia, USA; Catherine Buck, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Shanna Cox, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA; Eugene Dempsey, University College Cork, Ireland; Annie Dude, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Sarah Kunz, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Afif El Khuffash, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Satyan Lakshmintusimha, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Philip Levy, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Dror Mandel, Sackler University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Paolo Manzoni, University Hospital Degli Infermi, Biella, Italy; Mark Mercurio, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Heidi Murphy, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA; David Paul, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at TJU, Newark, DE, USA; Ashish Premkumar, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA; Renate Savich, University of Mississippi, Jackson, MI, USA; Arvind Sehgal, Monash University, Melbourne, * Patrick G. Gallagher [email protected]