Health Education Research Vol.19 no.6, © Oxford University Press 2004; All rights reserved
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Editorial by J. R. Sorenson and K. Tones
Chapel Hill, N.C. USA
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Farewell and Welcome |
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With this issue of Health Education Research: Theory and Practice I will complete my tenure as Executive Editor – Americas. It has been an exciting and event filled seven years. Many thanks are due to the many people who helped with this task. First I want to thank our Americas Associate Editors and Editorial Board members. They provided much needed editorial assistance and guidance. I also must thank the scores of reviewers who generously provided their time and expertise in helping us decide if a manuscript warranted journal space. And I want to thank the hundreds of authors who submitted their work to HER. I also want to thank HER's ROW (rest of the world) Executive Editor, Dr Keith Tones. He was an excellent colleague throughout these seven years. Additionally many thanks go to Oxford University Press and their talented and committed medical and scientific editors. They provided all the support we asked for. Finally, I must give special thanks to the four Editorial Assistants I had the pleasure of working with over this period of time: Dr Jay Bernhardt, Dr Jean Breni-Bontempi, Renee Johnson, and currently Kate Karriker-Jaffe (the latter two soon to become Drs). They made sure things got done in this editorial office and done well. They were more editorial colleagues than editorial assistants.
The journal continues to develop and increase its significance in the fields of health education and public health. For a sixth year in a row our ISI impact factor has increased and HER is now ranked in the top quartile of journals in terms of impact in public health. Our impact factor in educational research is even higher, where HER ranks in the top 10 percent of journals. At the same time, in the Americas editorial office over the past five years our submissions have increased 93% and our acceptance rate has steadily declined, to about 18% presently. We can be increasingly selective in choosing those manuscripts that we believe will have an impact on the field and ultimately contribute to improving the health of the public.
It is time to announce and welcome the new HER-Americas Executive Editor. He is Dr Michael P. Eriksen, Professor and Director of the Institute of Public Health at Georgia State University. Michael will become Executive Editor effective January 1, 2005. He brings an impressive record of research, policy development, and international work, particularly in the area of tobacco control, to this position. Michael and the Chapel Hill Editorial Office have begun the process of transitioning responsibilities. I know Michael can count on the support of the Americas Associate Editors and Editorial Board, as well as that of our European editorial counterpart, to continue to develop HER as an increasingly significant international journal in our field.
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Farewell to Jim Sorenson |
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It is with regret that we say farewell to Jim Sorenson who has acted with such efficiency as our US Editor. Jim has been an invaluable colleague whose understanding of health education and patient collaboration has made a substantial contribution to the development of Health Education Research. It has been a pleasure to work with him.
I am, however, sure that his good advice will still be available to the new US Editor, Michael Eriksen – to whom we extend a very warm welcome.
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