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JVS seeks associate and assistant editors

The Journal of Vascular Surgery is seeking applications for the following editorial positions to begin January 1, 2009:

Associate Editor – Clinical
Associate Editor – Basic Science
Assistant Editor – Reviews
Assistant Editor – Special Projects

Appointments are for one year based on performance, with a maximum of three years.
Editors will receive an annual honorarium at a level determined by the Society for Vascular Surgery.  Applications should be submitted no later than Friday, July 11.  Applicants will be interviewed in late July and August.

The application will ask applicants for a statement of interest describing specific qualifications for the position, including demonstrated academic productivity in clinical research and scholarly publications, previous editorial experience, and a description of availability to devote sufficient time to this commitment. 

Full position descriptions follow below.

Clinical Associate Editor

 
The Clinical Associate Editor will serve in the governance and overall management of the Journal with the Editor-in-Chief and Senior Editor through periodic conference calls and meetings as necessary.   The primary role of the Clinical Associate Editor will be to assume editorial management of 1-2 clinical (non-basic science) manuscript submissions per week, as well as assuming editorial management of every alternate new clinical manuscript submission when either the Editor-in-Chief or Senior Editor are away or otherwise unavailable.  The specific editorial management responsibilities include determination of the suitability of submitted manuscripts for formal review, selection of specific Reviewers for each paper, editing the Reviewers’ comments for appropriate content and form prior to forwarding to the authors, making the ultimate decision about the manuscript’s acceptance or rejection based upon the Reviewers’ assessments and the Editor’s judgment, and grading the quality of each submitted review.

In addition, the Clinical Associate Editor will assume management of a new feature of the Journal, the Evidence-Based-Medicine section.  This new feature of the Journal will be comprised of very brief, 1-3 page summaries, of published clinical evidence relating to a topic of interest in contemporary clinical practice.  In collaboration with the Editor-in-Chief, the Clinical Associate Editor will identify topics and experts in the field, and solicit and edit the content of their contributions.

Basic Science Associate Editor

The Basic Science Associate Editor will serve in the governance and overall management of the Journal with the Editor-in-Chief and Senior Editor through periodic conference calls and meetings as necessary.   The Basic Science Associate Editor will assume editorial management of all basic science manuscripts.  On occasion, the Basic Science Associate Editor may also assume editorial management of non-basic science (clinical) papers as needed.   The specific editorial management responsibilities include determination of the suitability of submitted manuscripts for formal review, selection of specific Reviewers for each paper, editing the Reviewers’ comments for appropriate content and form prior to forwarding to the authors, making the ultimate decision about the manuscript’s acceptance or rejection based upon the Reviewers’ assessments and the Editor’s judgment, and grading the quality of each submitted review.

In addition, the Basic Science Associate Editor will assume management responsibility for soliciting and editing Translational Research Review Articles in collaboration with the Editor-in-Chief and the Society for Vascular Surgery Research Council. It is expected that the Basic Science Associate Editor will actively monitor the field, including working with academic societies, to identify research manuscripts worthy of “fast-track” publication.

Reviews Assistant Editor

The Reviews Assistant Editor will serve in the governance and overall management of the Journal with the Editor-in-Chief and Senior Editor through periodic conference calls and meetings as necessary. Review articles are favored by the readership. Further, we plan to use review articles to fill gaps in the knowledge base the Journal offers, such as review articles in Vascular Medicine.  The specific editorial management responsibilities will include: soliciting submissions from experts in the field, determining the suitability of submitted manuscripts for formal review, and editing such manuscripts.

Special Projects Assistant Editor

The Special Projects Assistant Editor will serve in the governance and overall management of the Journal with the Editor-in-Chief and Senior Editor through periodic conference calls and meetings as necessary. The primary role of the Special Projects Assistant Editor will be to assume editorial management of the new sections on Practice Management Issues, How I Do It, Clinical Trials Updates, and Expert Debates.  Description of these features can be found at the end of this announcement. The specific editorial management responsibilities will include: soliciting submissions from experts in the field, determining the suitability of submitted manuscripts for formal review, and editing such manuscripts.

Description of features:

1. Practice Management Issues: This regular feature of the Journal will focus primarily on issues of interest to the practicing specialist, with particular emphasis on the business of medicine. This would include but would not be limited to office management issues, vascular laboratory management, sociopolitical topics, recruitment, and reimbursement issues. Several of the presentations over the past two years at the meeting of the Association of Chairs in Vascular Surgery at the SVS Annual meeting would fit this niche and be of significant interest to the readership. It is noteworthy that 82% of the current readership describes themselves as non-academic practitioners.

2. How I do it: This will be a regular, well illustrated, and brief technical tips section by an expert in the field would be of substantial interest. This section would also include tips in open operative procedures and challenges, which will become increasingly important as operative experience in conventional open surgery continues to diminish. Videos could be made available on the electronic version of the Journal.

3. Clinical Trials Update:  There is a need to communicate in as close to real time as possible the status of clinical investigations. This is especially true in an era when trial data, and not infrequently preliminary trial data, are presented at meetings and courses, and in the media. We believe that a periodic critical presentation of such information in the Journal with brief Expert commentary would fill an important need, which is currently being served, less than optimally and primarily, by so called “throw-away” publications and especially industry publications. This would include recent approvals of devices by the Food & Drug Administration.

4. Expert Debates: These articles would be a point/counterpoint “debate” between two recognized experts in the field concerning a controversial clinical issue, such as the safety of bilateral hypogastric exclusion, AAA endografting for young healthy patients, and intervention for a recurrent carotid stenosis. These “debates” would often be introduced with a brief case vignette.