The Future of Anesthesia Progress

In the past 4 years, I have accomplished many of my goals for Anesthesia Progress. The entire look of the journal has been updated. Color has been added to all pages so that authors no longer have to choose between black and white or color figures, tables, and graphs based on cost. The content of Anesthesia Progress has also been expanded. Thanks to Associate Editor Dr Mark Saxen, a new section featuring synopses of articles relevant to office-based anesthesia from other journals has been added. I always look forward to reading this new section. The Continuing Education Section in Memory of Norman Trieger, DMD, MD, one of our past editors, has been expanded with comprehensive reviews of topics relevant to sedation and general anesthesia practitioners in dentistry. Thank you to Dr James Tom for that effort. The journal publishes more articles than previously, as you are not doubt aware. The number of pages has been increased by 25%. A new section, Brief Communications from the Journal of the Japanese Dental Society of Anesthesiology (JDSA), has taken the place of the yearly “Abstracts from the Journal of JDSA,” which was started with my predecessor and longest serving editor, Dr Joel Weaver. My thanks to Dr Takehiko Iijma, the editor of the Journal of JDSA, for his support in this endeavor. For authors, the use of the Peer Track system has greatly improved turnaround times for review and decision. The system has also allowed us to better evaluate our publication statistics. I am especially proud that we earned a CiteScore, a metric of publication influence, of 0.79, which puts Anesthesia Progress in the 50% level of all anesthesia journals. For a highly specialized journal reviewed by a small portion of a smaller profession such as ours, this is an impressive score. I hope you find our journal to be an important part of your lifelong education in this specialized area of dental practice