Recognizing our authors

To our authors.

SHORTLY after articulating the mission statement for ANESTHESIOLOGY a couple of years ago, the Editorial Board turned to the question of who our audiences were and how we could better serve them. Readers, of course, are our chief audience, and I will write next month about our efforts to better serve our readers. But to meet our mission, which is to advance our medical specialty by promoting ne...

Introducing our Authors.

Top papers of 2011: recognizing our finest.

Y ou can tweet all day, but it is hard to distinguish the finest tweets among the noise. After all, there are about 50 million tweets in a single day at Twitter. Coincidentally, that just happens to be the total number of journal articles published in the world since 1665 when Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was started So which was the best paper ever written? 50 million is far...

Recognizing Our Peer Reviewers of 2012

Last year, 92 peer reviewers contributed their time and expertise to reviewing the submitted manuscripts to the Journal of Preventive Medicine & Public Health. We regard the anonymous peer review as a vital component to the publishing process. We are fortunate to have a dedicated community of researchers who willingly accept the often grueling and thankless task of critically evaluating the wor...

Recognizing authors: an examination of the consistent programmer hypothesis

Software developers have individual styles of programming. This paper empirically examines the validity of the consistent programmer hypothesis: that a facet or set of facets exist that can be used to recognize the author of a given program based on programming style. The paper further postulates that the programming style means that different test strategies work better for some programmers (o...