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Creating a New ‘Gratis Open Access’
Family Medicine Research Journal
Laura A. McLellan, MLSCase Western Reserve University Family Medicine Research Division
AAFP 1997 “Plan to Enhance Family Practice
Research”
Discontinued
Less original research
More ads
Creation of the 501(3)(c) Annals of Family Medicine,
Inc.
‘Gratis’ Open
Access
CommercialAdvertising
Industry-funded
Supplements
AuthorCharges
Gratis vs. Libre =Free of charge vs. Free of restrictions
http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/08-02-08.htm
2002-3 Annals Team
EditorKurt C. Stange, MD PhD
Senior Associate EditorWilliam R. Phillips, MD MPH
Associate EditorsLouise S. Acheson, MD
Benjamin F. Crabtree, PhD
Statistical EditorStephen J. Zyzanski, PhD
Consulting EditorWilliam L. Miller, MD MA
Reflections Editor & Editorial CoordinatorRobin S. Gotler, MA
Editorial AssistantLaura A. McLellan, MLS
AAFP Publications DivisionManaging Editor
Claire ZimmermanEditorial Assistant
Elizabeth Anderson, MLS
Editorial Director (all AAFP pubs.)
Bob EdsallPublisher (all AAFP pubs.)
Joetta Melton
2003 Editorial Board27 members on initial advisory (not review)
board
Expertise:Family MedicineInternal MedicinePediatricsNursingPublic HealthSociologyEpidemiologyPsychologySocial SciencePatient Advocacy
Nation:United StatesCanadaUnited KingdomSouth Africa
Setting:PracticeEducationPolicyCBPRPBRN
2003 Peer Reviewers: (n 600) Largest categories by primary discipline
and country
Family MedicinePsychologyEpidemiologyHealth Services
ResearchInternal MedicinePediatricsPharmacologyNursingSocial ScienceEducation
SociologyStatisticsPublic Health
United StatesCanadaUnited KingdomNetherlandsNew Zealand
Review ProcessAnnals of Family Medicine
Receive online
Review forCompleteness
Editor review
Peer review
Resubmit if needed
Associate editor review
Draft decision letter
Decision letter
Reject
Submit elsewhere
(or challenge)
AcceptRevise & resubmit
Editors’ conference
Review ProcessAnnals of Family Medicine
Acceptance
Copy editing & layout
Queries & proofs
Return in < 48 hrs
Publish online & in print Participate in online discussion
Recommend discussants
2002 website
Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press(TM) assists in the publication of
Annals of Family Medicine Online
Mission:The Annals of Family Medicine is dedicated to advancing knowledge essential to understanding and improving health and primary care. The Annals supports a learning community of those who generate and use information about health and generalist health care.
Original Research:• Clinical, biomedical, behavioral, and social sciences• Health services, health care systems, and policy.
Methodology:• Articles that propose new methods• Extend existing methods• Provide new approaches to integrating methods for
primary care research.
Articles
Systematic Reviews:• Selected systematic reviews that build on what is known to
advance theory or methods, or to identify new research directions
• Meta-analyses and economic and decision analyses that use rigorous methods to synthesize information to answer questions of importance to health and primary health care
• Reviews should describe explicit methods to define questions, identify current knowledge, and propose new work.
Articles
Theory:• Explore problems unique to generalist practice• Develop models of how family medicine and primary care
can best meet important health care needs of individuals, families, or communities
• At the level of illness, individual, community, patient-clinician interaction, generalist/specialist interface, practice organization, or health care system
• New models should be tied to existing theory and grounded in research or other experience
• Work that transcends disciplinary boundaries is encouraged.
Articles
Essays (“Reflections”):• Reflections of clinicians, scientists, patients,
families, health care leaders, and policy makers• Stories of personal experience• Persuasive essays that present a point of view or
course of action• Explanatory essays that share information,
describe a topic, or offer a definition.
Articles
Articles
Special Reports:• Important cutting-edge topics that do not fit into
other article categories• Topics relevant to primary care and improving
health or health care
Editorials:• Editorials are published only in response to
specific invitations from the editors
Letters
TRACK eLetters• TRACK = Topical Response to the Annals
Community of Knowledge• Respond to published articles • Replaces letters to the editor• Readers, authors, others
Annals does NOT publish:
• Case reports• Clinical updates• Expert reviews• Reviews of books or software• Fiction or poetry
Volume 1, Issue 1May/June 2003
Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press(TM) assists in the publication of
Annals of Family Medicine Online
Current issueSep/Oct 2003
Past issuesMay/June 2003- Sep/Oct 2003
Search the Annals
Online DiscussionsDiscussion of articlesDiscussion of other topics
Employment Opportunities
2003 website
Indexing
Feb 2004 MEDLINE acceptance
July 2004 ISI Web of Science/SCI/Current Contents
Aug 2004 EMBASE Jan 2005 PsychINFOJune 2006 PubMed Central
(retrospective to v1i1)
June 2007 First inclusion in Journal Citation Reports (2006 edition)
2007 Sponsors of the 501(3)(c)
Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
‘Gratis’ Open
Access
CommercialAdvertising
Industry-funded
Supplements
AuthorCharges
Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press® assists in the
publication of Annals of Family Medicine Online
Current issueMay/June 2008The Issue In Brief
Journal Club
Past issuesMay/June 2003- Mar/Apr 2008
Search the Annals
Discussion of articles
Employment Opportunities
The Annals of Family Medicine is indexed in the MEDLINE, MEDLARS, Science Citation Index Expanded, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, PsycINFO, EMBASE, and CINAHL
databases. The Annals deposits all published content in PubMed Central.
Online ISSN: 1544-1717 Print ISSN: 1544-1709
2008 website
Submission Trend
Manuscripts 2003 – 2012
Online ReadershipComputers in 180+ countries/top-level
domains have connected to AnnFamMed.org
2007 2012
Avg. Total Accesses (per month) 79,911 170,329
Avg. Unique IP Accesses (per month) 28,574 35,702
*Numbers exclude bot accesses
Monthly Accesses
May 2003 – Jan 2013
eLetters Directory
May 30, 2003 – Dec 31, 2012
2,426 total eLetters published
Impact Factor: 5.35Top 20 of general/internal
medicine category: #14 out of 153
Primary health care category: #1 of 14
Immediacy Index: 2.43Measures how soon articles are
cited after publication: #8 of 153
Article Influence Score: 2.065Ratio of citation influence to size
of article contribution: #11 of 153
Journal Citation Reports 2011
2012 Editorial Advisory Board34 members
Expertise/Role:Family MedicineInternal MedicinePediatricsPublic HealthEpidemiologyPsychologySocial SciencePhysician AssistantMedical LibrarianPatientMedical StudentFamily Med. Resident
Nation:United StatesCanadaUnited KingdomSouth AfricaAustraliaThe Netherlands
EditorKurt C. Stange, MD PhD
Senior Associate EditorWilliam R. Phillips, MD MPH
Associate EditorsLouise S. Acheson, MD
Bijal Balasubramanian, MBBS PhD
Elizabeth A. Bayliss, MD MSPH
Deborah J. Cohen, PhD
Robert L. Ferrer, MD MPH
John J. Frey III, MD
James M. Gill, MD MPH
Robert L. Williams, MD MPH
Consulting EditorPaul A. Nutting, MD MSPH
Consulting Statistical
EditorStephen J. Zyzanski, PhD
Reflections Editor & Ed. Coord.Robin S. Gotler, MA
Editorial AssistantLaura A. McLellan, MLS
AAFP Publications DivisionManaging Editor
Claire ZimmermanEditorial Assistant
Elizabeth Anderson, MLS
Publisher (all AAFP pubs.)
Stephanie Hanaway
2013 Annals Team
Volume 11, Issue 2Mar/Apr 2013
New Features: RSS and Collected Papers
Proposed Autumn 2007Implemented Winter 2008-9
RSS Feeds• Hundreds $$ for initial set-up• Hundreds $$ for yearly maintenance
Collected Papers: Article categories• Thousands $$$ for initial set-up• Hundreds $$ for yearly maintenance
Collected Papers: Subject categories (costs based on complexity of categorization)
• Thousands $$$$ for initial set-up• Hundreds $$ for yearly maintenance
2012
2012
@AnnFamMed
2012 website
Published April 2013
Selection of 41 essays in 7 themes
Special thanks to these current & former members of
the Annals team
Kurt Stange, MD PhD, Editor
Bill Phillips, MD MPH, Sr. Assoc. Editor
Associate/Consulting Editors
Louise Acheson, MD
Bijal Balasubramanian, MBBS PhD
Liz Bayliss, MD MSPH
Deb Cohen, PhD
Ben Crabtree, PhD
Bob Ferrer, MD MPH
John Frey, MD
Jim Gill, MD MPH
Will Miller, MD MA
Paul Nutting, MD MSPH
Rob Williams, MD MPH
Steve Zyzanski, PhD, Statistical Editor
Robin Gotler, MA, Reflections Editor & Editorial Coordinator
Claire Zimmerman, Managing Editor
Beth Anderson, MLS, Editorial Assistant
Bob Edsall, Editorial Director
