As ACR Open Rheumatology (ACROR) enters its fifth year, its founding editors in chief are looking back on the journal’s accomplishments and forward to ushering in a new era, beginning with a search for their successors.
Patricia Katz, PhD, professor of medicine and health policy at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Edward H. Yelin, PhD, Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UCSF, are nearing the end of their five-year term as co-editors. They point to major accomplishments since ACROR launched in March 2019, including the establishment of a journal club and inclusion of clinical images, as well as the release of ACROR’s first impact factor, expected in summer 2023.
“We got the seedling to sprout. The next editor or editors will keep tending and growing it,” says Dr. Katz.
Dr. Katz
“The new editor will have new ideas about expanding the journal, including its audience and the type of research that gets published,” says Dr. Yelin.
“We are looking forward to the next phase of ACROR and are excited to search for a new editor in chief,” says Amr Sawalha, MD, chair of the ACR Committee on Journal Publications, professor in, and chief of, the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, holder of the Vincent Londino Endowed Chair in Pediatric Rheumatology and director of the Comprehensive Lupus Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Sawalha
A search committee with reputable U.S. and international rheumatology investigators welcomes highly qualified candidates to apply. “Our goal is to recruit an editor in chief who would expand on the current success of ACROR and take it to a new level of excellence in basic, translational, and clinical research publications,” says Dr. Sawalha.
“There’s an opportunity for the new editor to take the journal into its next chapter,” adds Kimberly Murphy, senior director, ACR journals. “Editors are able to build their own editorial board. ACR is open-minded to applicants’ vision for the journal. It’s a way for someone to make a considerable mark on the ACR’s only open access offering.”
Ms. Murphy
Open Access
ACROR publishes high-quality, rigorously peer-reviewed articles on original investigations in all aspects of rheumatology research, including basic science, clinical science, epidemiology, health outcomes and education, as well as commentaries and reviews.
