Diabetes Care to Date: “The Hits Just Keep on Coming!”

With this issue, we complete 18 months as the editorial team for Diabetes Care and document our progress for the preceding 6 months. We had provided a comprehensive update in January 2013 (1), and one would think that by this point in our tenure, the changes and updates would be minimal. However, as will be appreciated, nothing could be further from the truth. The changes have been many, and the quality of published articles continue to be at an incredibly high level. Thus, this article’s subtitle—“The Hits Just Keep on Coming!”—clearly can present several interpretations. On the one hand, it refers to past songs, TV shows, or movies that are judged to be most popular by the public. On the other hand, the phrase has also referred to negative outcomes, e.g., continued bad luck, additional penalties, or unpopular laws. I use it here to point to the favorable developments that greatly contribute to the continued upward trajectory of the journal’s impact. These developments include 1 ) the continuation of our Diabetes Care Symposium at the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA's) Scientific Sessions, 2 ) the elimination of formats felt to no longer be in the best interest of Diabetes Care along with the addition of manuscript categories to address specific needs and interests, 3 ) the highlighting of landmark studies as part of a specific focus of regular issues, and 4 ) the publishing of an unprecedented number of state-of-the-art reviews and summary statements. First and foremost, this issue features articles from our annual Diabetes Care Symposium, now in its second year. This high-level symposium, held at the ADA’s recent 73rd Scientific Sessions in Chicago, represents a competition of manuscripts submitted to the journal through the category of Symposium Article. Once again, more than 150 manuscripts were submitted for the competition; this year, five were …