EDITORIAL : New times at the journal of clinical monitoring and computing

Stephen E. Rees1
Received: 10 June 2015 / Accepted: 10 June 2015 / Published online: 14 June 2015
Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
I am pleased to announce that two new Associate editors
have been appointed to the Journal of Clinical Monitoring
and Computing, these being Professors Thomas Scheeren,
from Groningen, the Netherlands and Karim Bendjelid
from Geneva, Switzerland. Both Professors are well known
for their clinical and technological contributions to the
community and the journal, in particular in relation to
hemodynamic monitoring, which remains a core area of the
journal’s activities.
The appointment of Professors Scheeren and Bendjelid
reflects the expansion of the journal over recent years.
Since 2012, we have re-established an official ISI impact
factor, with this rising from 0.887 in 2012 to 1.448 in 2014.
The number of submissions has doubled from 2011 to
2014, and the number of pages has expanded from 80 to
100 per issue, with a further expansion to 120 pages
planned for 2016. I believe that the increasing impact
factor reflects the quality of papers published and I would
like to thank all authors, reviewers and editorial board
members for their continuing efforts in improving the
journal.
I believe that the Journal of Clinical Monitoring and
Computing is a unique journal, a technological journal
dedicated to the specialist clinical fields of anesthesia,
intensive care, surgical monitoring and related disciplines.
Unlike most biomedical engineering journals this tight
clinical focus ensures continuity of relevance to the same
clinical readers. Unlike most clinical journals, its technical
focus allows publication of new ideas and technology,
evaluated on small groups of patients. This promotes the
novel solution, not yet evaluated by large randomized
control trials. It is our aim to publish work which is always
both technically correct and clinically relevant, and our
editorial board includes a large number of anesthetists,
intensivists and biomedical engineers.
Since 2011 the editorial board has been revised substantially,
and organized into relevant clinical disciplines
within the scope of the journal. In addition, a number of
specialist society members have been added to the board.
These include board members representing the European
Society for Computing and Technology in Anaesthesia and
Intensive Care (ESCTAIC), the Society for Technology in
Anesthesia (STA), the Society for Complex Acute Illness
(SCAI) and the NAVAt (NAVigating towards your Anestheisa
Targets) group. These societies represent important
contributions to the development of technological and
mathematical solutions to clinical problems in our field,
and it is a pleasure to have representation on the editorial
board of the JCMC. I believe that our editorial board
should be renewed regularly, and I welcome proposals
from those of you who would like to contribute. Please feel
free to recommend yourself or a colleague by sending an
email to me including cv and publication list. Other suggestions,
including special issues or collaboration with
societies are also welcome.
Finally, in accordance with the publisher, the editorial
board will select a featured article for each issue, with this
being available free of charge on the journal’s web page.
I look forward to our further collaboration.
& Stephen E. Rees
sr@hst.aau.dk
1 Respiratory and Critical Care group (rcare), Aalborg
University, Aalborg, Denmark
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DOI 10.1007/s10877-015-9724-5