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      Looking forward by looking back: Inception of a new journal

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      Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis
      John Wiley and Sons Inc.

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          RPTH Aims and Scope Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis (RPTH) is the Open Access journal of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) and the newest journal in the field of thrombosis and hemostasis. Complementing its flagship journal, the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, RPTH provides a dedicated Open Access home for science and discourse among researchers, clinicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and patients. RPTH is a “living journal” and serves as a jumping point for digital discussion. It also reflects the current era of inter‐disciplinary scientific discovery and new methods of knowledge dissemination and the wide reach of ISTH by featuring articles from all corners of the globe. RPTH provides rigorous, rapid peer review and immediate dissemination of research reports from basic, clinical, translational and population or public health science. The Journal is interested in quality, outcomes, dissemination and implementation science, seeking studies and trials on novel care delivery, including in areas of resource constraint around the world. As we enter the new year of 2020, I wanted to look back at the origins of RPTH to help set the stage for looking to the future. Did you ever wonder how a new journal gets off the ground? In this editorial, I share stories about the beginning of my involvement with the journal, and the path to launching the journal. In summer 2016, I was asked about my interest in the editor in chief position for a new ISTH journal, “ISTH Communications.” After review of the case statement for the journal, I prepared a letter outlining my editorial vision. The introduction to the letter is shown in Figure 1 and emphasized a vision to publish cutting‐edge science, be distinct from Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (JTH), help clinicians take care of patients, and innovate new approaches in publishing. I laid out key elements for success: Align with the ISTH Strategic Plan Promote multidisciplinary science Seek articles on quality, outcomes and systems of care Promote open access data Promote digital discussion, including of preliminary findings Help authors use color effectively in figures Promote career development of early career editorial board members and associate editors Provide education on peer review Provide feedback and recognition of peer review excellence Increase awareness of ISTH and thrombosis and hemostasis science via social media Be closely connected to the ISTH Congresses Figure 1 Where did things start? “ISTH‐Communications” Many of these elements are being achieved and some are still works in progress. New elements evolved after we launched, such as the Illustrated Review article concept1 and clarifying a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.2, 3 In the near future, readers will see open data badges,4 information on optimal use of color in publishing, announcement of new editorial board members, including early career members, and more collaboration with the ISTH Congress. After becoming editor in chief, in fall 2016, the first steps were to develop the Journal's “Aims and Scope,” determine the editorial structure, issue structure, and identify associate editors. The Aims and Scope are shown in the box above. Fun tasks came next. What would we name the journal? What would the design be? I felt that the working title, “ISTH‐Communications,” was helpful, but I explored other options. This process started with brainstorming with colleagues and ISTH leaders, and then a ranked list was submitted to ISTH leaders for their input. “Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis” embodied everything I wanted the Journal to become, and enthusiasm for this was high. Next was the most fun part! With expert work of the ISTH Director of Marketing, Membership and Public Affairs, Louise St. Germain, a logo and cover design were selected. Figure 2 shows the cover design selection, which was an iterative process involving fine tuning from several selections. Associate editors were identified after seeking advice from ISTH leaders and the ISTH Publishing Committee, with aims to represent our diverse science, the globe, and be equitable on gender representation. Figure 2 Journal Cover Selection By this time a launch marketing timeline was developed, an introductory editorial was published in JTH,5 editorial board nominations were sought from ISTH leaders, a video was created, website was designed and the ScholarOne submission site was designed. In January 2017 the launch took place for author submissions and we invited authors to prepare review articles for the first issue. Procedures for article transfers were developed in collaboration with JTH editors Rosendaal and Reitsma, and we engaged methodological reviewers. Initial response of the research community was outstanding, with more than 20 articles submitted in the first 5 weeks. Discussions with associate editors centered on the journal's vision, final planning for its components, article expectations and just getting to know each other. This team continues to today in guiding the Journal to success. By July 2017, the first issue was published with great excitement, and although we are an online journal, thousands of print copies were distributed for promotion at the ISTH Berlin Congress. After experiencing the enthusiasm, we decided that each year we would print the issue coinciding with ISTH Congresses. RPTH is fortunate for the support of the scientific community in trusting us to publish their work, and sustaining the journal as we enter our fourth year in 2020. This support allowed us to surpass expectations on number of publications and indexing milestones. We have achieved indexing milestones that allow your publications to be listed on PubMed Central and included in the Journal Citation Reports, which leads us to an impact factor. We look forward to full indexing and our first impact factor,6 increasing publication frequency this year to better serve our authors, and continual improvement to enhance science quality and dissemination. I would like to thank the editorial team including associate editors (Pantep Angchaisuksiri, Cihan Ay, Suzanne Cannegieter, Gerald Chi, Susan Kahn, Fiona Newall, Yotis Senis, Alisa Wolberg, Neil Zakai and Adam Cuker), editorial board members, our Wiley editor Emma Brink, managing editor Zachary Gillan, and the team at ISTH – Thomas Reiser, Christine Candora‐Hickey, Louise St. Germain and Luke Blount. We anticipate this group will lead us to a solid footing in the coming years, and as always, I welcome feedback from the science community and readers.

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          Signaling the trustworthiness of science

          Trust in science increases when scientists and the outlets certifying their work honor science’s norms. Scientists often fail to signal to other scientists and, perhaps more importantly, the public that these norms are being upheld. They could do so as they generate, certify, and react to each other’s findings: for example, by promoting the use and value of evidence, transparent reporting, self-correction, replication, a culture of critique, and controls for bias. A number of approaches for authors and journals would lead to more effective signals of trustworthiness at the article level. These include article badging, checklists, a more extensive withdrawal ontology, identity verification, better forward linking, and greater transparency.
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            Illustrated review article: A new format for disseminating scientific progress

            Dissemination of science traditionally occurs through ages‐old formats, including oral communications at conferences and print formats including posters at conferences and published manuscripts. Modern communication methods are increasingly enabling creative new ways to convey science rapidly across the globe. With its Open Access, online format, Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis has embraced these advances, and is piloting new publication formats to meet our goals of enhanced scientific communication and learning. Multimedia formats will help us accomplish this.1, 2 The most recent of these is a new article type, the “Illustrated Review Article,” the first of which is featured in this issue.3 Much like a graphic novel—a comic book, if you will—an Illustrated Review Article consists of “capsules” that each include a central image that conveys the author's message, accompanied by brief supporting text. By encouraging this distilled format, we aim to stretch the creativity of scientists to effectively convey their work to the broad science community and the public. This format should also allow improved retention and understanding of the information by readers.2 We plan to publish two types of Illustrated Review Articles: those related to conferences/symposia, and those focused on a theme. RPTH's inaugural Illustrated Review Article is a symposium‐centered one, developed in collaboration with organizers of the 9th Annual Symposium on Hemostasis: Advances in the Clinical and Basic Science of Coagulation that took place in April, 2018 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in the United States.3 Several months in advance of the Symposium, the 20 conference speakers were each invited to submit a single three‐component capsule with an image (containing no more than two panels) illustrating the central concepts of their planned presentation, a 150‐word summary, and up to three references. The submitted capsules were assembled into the Illustrated Review Article with 22 authors including the conferences chairs. The article underwent traditional peer review and a revision was ultimately accepted. It was then published online to coincide with the start of the conference.3 Consequently, all content in the Illustrated Review Article was immediately freely available for download from the RPTH journal webpage. Attendees could view and refer to the article capsules electronically during the presentations. Since printed copies were also distributed during conference check‐in, attendees seeking a more traditional format were also able to take notes directly on the capsules during the talks. Illustrated Reviews for conferences offer several unique strengths. Presenters need to develop the theme of their talks early to meet publication consideration deadlines. Readers have immediate access to comprehensive peer‐reviewed figures that include text explanations and can help provide visual context during oral presentations. The images can be disseminated instantly through social media (eg, Twitter) to ignite conversations amongst attendees, and also to engage individuals who are not present at the conference. The second type of Illustrated Review Article will allow authors working on long‐term projects or complex multi‐part projects to submit a review of their work, or will allow authors to provide a comprehensive review, akin to a traditional review article. For example, a two‐decade observational study might present an Illustrated Review Article with 10 capsules covering different aspects of the body of work. Or, an author might present an Illustrated Review Article including eight capsules that depict the story of a significant development in thrombosis and hemostasis science. Both types of Illustrated Review Articles allow active use of the material by readers. The images can be easily incorporated into presentations, or placed in teaching slide decks or e‐learning platforms for medical, graduate, and continuing education courses. Open Access makes this especially feasible, because it enables free access for investigators at both large and small institutions around the world, and does not require a journal subscription. Open Access also facilitates access for the general public, helping to “close the loop” and ensure that individuals across a range of backgrounds can learn about the latest scientific advances. In the Illustrated Review format, the information is presented as a simple, digestible figure that may help traverse the “science‐speak” gap that can hinder communication among disciplines. The early response to our first Illustrated Review Article was positive, from conception to publication. Conference organizers and authors were enthusiastic, flexible, and creative. They were willing to forego composing traditional review articles for the Symposium. Creative and dedicated peer reviewers provided rapid, thoughtful feedback that enhanced the quality of the article capsules, and in several cases in the presented slides themselves. Conference attendees commented on the fresh format and ability to immediately use the figures in their presentations and work. Social media allowed live broadcasting from the conference. The Open Access platform of RPTH allows the editors to develop innovative publishing formats, including Illustrated Review Articles. We are not aware of other journals with a similar article type. We hope that the scientific community and learners, including those from all career stages, benefit from it. We strongly encourage our readers to review the author instructions and consider submitting an Illustrated Review Article for publication consideration. We are happy to discuss your ideas for potential articles and look forward to your creative approaches to this new manuscript format.
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              Diversity and inclusion in a new medical journal: Advancing science in the 21st century

              As editor‐in‐chief of Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis (RPTH), a new medical journal, I am committed to diversity and inclusion in the publishing process. Ensuring diversity in science on factors such as region of the world, race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic background will advance science more rapidly. In this Editorial I outline our vision and progress so far. As the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis is an international organization, any journal serving it must represent the entire globe. We are doing this in different ways. Our eight associate editors reside in seven countries on four continents; the 53 editorial board members reside in 20 countries on six continents. Geographic diversity is important to providing optimal peer review of the science that is submitted for publication consideration, and to representing the scientific and educational needs of researchers and clinicians around the world. For example, our team is well positioned to review and publish research articles addressing questions relevant to resource‐constrained areas of the world, such as studies on innovative approaches to implementation of care in these areas.1 Such studies are important to these areas, and can also provide key information for more wealthy countries on providing high‐value‐lower‐cost care. Published articles through the July 2018 issue of RPTH came from 21 different countries on six continents, and authors from 12 other countries submitted articles that were not accepted. The support of authors from around the world was instrumental in RPTH being accepted for indexing on PubMed Central after only 1 year. At this time, we have not collected information on race/ethnicity of our associate editors, editorial board or authors, but hope that our commitment to global diversity will enhance race/ethnic diversity. Going further, some data suggests that among individual scientific articles, those from groups with more ethnic diversity (based on surnames) are more highly cited.2 We hope to gather more data on race/ethnicity in the future. Gender diversity in scientific publishing is a topic of substantial recent interest. As for other aspects of diversity, gender diversity in science is important to advancing our knowledge given the different perspectives that women and men bring to scientific inquiry. A 2018 report showed that of The Lancet authors from 2014 to 2017, 33% were women and among last authors (presumably senior authors), 23% were women.3 Relevant to our field, these percentages for The Lancet Haematology were ~36% and ~18%, respectively. Asghar and colleagues reported improvement in the representation of women authors in cardiology journals for both the first and senior author positions from 1996 to 2016, however, representation of women remained low in 2016 at 20.8% of first authors and only 12.3% of senior authors.4 This analysis did not demonstrate a correlation between percentage of women first or senior authors and number of women on the editorial board of a journal. The correlation of percentage of women as first or senior author and editor gender was not reported. It is reasonable to hypothesize that a culture of inclusion in journal leadership would translate to a peer review structure that promotes inclusion of women authors. That I am a female editor‐in‐chief is one step toward this end. Women might feel more inclined to submit their best work to a journal led by a woman. In assembling our leadership team, I was deliberate in having 50% representation of women among associate editors. Further, 45% of the editorial board are women. I examined the gender distribution of RPTH authors to date through the July 2018 issue, classifying each author using searches on individuals when needed. There were 648 authors whose gender could be identified and only 13 unidentifiable. Of the total, 277 (42.7%) were women. Of 111 first authors, 50 (45.0%) were women, while of 111 last/senior authors, 42 (38.8%) were women. Considering invited articles (commentaries, reviews and others) 13 of 31 (41.9%) were by women senior authors. Compared to the recent literature mentioned above,3, 4 it appears that RPTH, or simply our field of thrombosis and hemostasis, is doing well in gender representation. I call on other thrombosis and hemostasis journals to compile similar data. The last type of diversity considered here is career stage. I want RPTH to look to the future of our field. Therefore, I intentionally selected two of eight associate editors, and 25% of the editorial board, who were early in their career. As discussed in a previous Editorial, we believe this mix will bode well for the future of scientific publishing in our field.5 The RPTH associate editor group has discussed diversity, inclusion, and unconscious bias. We will continue regular discussion and monitor ourselves by evaluating peer review process data. I encourage all RPTH peer reviewers to consider unconscious bias, whether by region of the world, gender, race‐ethnicity, career stage or author institution when evaluating articles for RPTH. As RPTH is partway through our second year, we aim to shape the Journal to meet your needs. If you have further thoughts about diversity and inclusion and how we can expand these principles to advance thrombosis and hemostasis science via the Journal, please share them with me by email or Twitter.
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                mary.cushman@uvm.edu
                Journal
                Res Pract Thromb Haemost
                Res Pract Thromb Haemost
                10.1002/(ISSN)2475-0379
                RTH2
                Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis
                John Wiley and Sons Inc. (Hoboken )
                2475-0379
                20 January 2020
                January 2020
                : 4
                : 1 ( doiID: 10.1002/rth2.v4.1 )
                : 6-8
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ] Editor in Chief Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont Burlington Burlington VT USA
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                [*] [* ] Correspondence

                Mary Cushman MD, MSc, Department of Medicine, Professor of Medicine & Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont Burlington, Burlington, VT, USA.

                Email: mary.cushman@ 123456uvm.edu

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                RTH212302
                10.1002/rth2.12302
                6971313
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                © 2020 The Authors. Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc on behalf of International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis.

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