The Human Side of Diabetes Care

On behalf of our outstanding team of associate editors, I am honored and privileged to report to you the current state of Diabetes Care at the end of the third year of our tenure. The journal continues to enjoy a wide international readership and a high impact factor that allows us to be ranked fourth out of 92 journals in diabetes and endocrinology and tenth out of 100 general medicine journals. Though we are clearly making progress in clinical science, I want to highlight our challenges, particularly in the humanistic aspects of diabetes, as we contribute to the mission of not only finding a cure for the disease but also improving the lives of people with diabetes.The explosion of interest in the field of diabetes and its comorbidities, along with increased research, has enabled maintenance of the record submission rate established about 2 years ago. This rate seems to have plateaued a bit, perhaps because of frustration with our high rejection rate, which is currently 75%. Regrettably, space constraints often dictate the rejection of many well-done studies, a portion of which the editorial committee is forced to return without external review, thus presenting the difficult task of disappointing authors. I would like to emphasize that this does not mean that the study has not been read internally by our associate editors. The advantage to authors is that they will at least get the “bad news” quickly rather than waiting for several weeks. Having said that, our overall …