Staying the course--with a few adjustments.

Diabetes Care is the most widely read clinical diabetes journal. This is due, in large part, to the vision and strategies of the previous editors: Jay S. Skyler (1978–1982, the founding editor), F. John Service (1983–1987), David C. Robbins (1988–1991), Allen L. Drash (1992–1996), and Charles M. Clark, Jr. (1997–2001). A measure of its influence is the recent adoption of a Portuguese edition of Diabetes Care by the 3,000-member Brazilian Diabetes Society as their official publication. Editions of Diabetes Care are also being published in Europe, Asia, and Ibero-America. One of the first such editions was published in Spanish. In addition to readership, another way to assess a journal’s effect is by its “impact factor.” The impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the “average” article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. It is calculated as the number of current citations of articles published in the journal during the previous two years divided by the number of …