It takes a village: wrapping up 2017 at CJSM

2017 — it’s a ‘wrap’ Photo: Marco Verch, Wikimedia

The end of the year, with its holidays of giving (e.g. Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and more), is a special time of reflection.

As the CJSM Associate Editor responsible for our emerging media (blogs like this, our Twitter and Facebook feeds, our podcasts) I am grateful for the community that supports these endeavors.

This group of contributors is far too large for me to mention in an exhaustive list.  But a non-random, representative sample might include:

• Podcast guests like Emily Kroshus, whose conversation with CJSM is found on our most recent podcast exploring health disparities in American sorts medicine.
• The journal’s junior editors, including Dawn Thompson and Jason Zaremski, who contribute blog posts and Tweet from sports medicine conferences around the globe.
• The staff at Wolters-Kluwer who provide the resources and assistance without which this journal could not exist.
• Guests willing to be interviewed for this blog’s recurring “5 Questions with CJSM feature,” including Brian Krabak, whose recent post focused on his new book dealing with running injuries.
• Our associated sports medicine societies, that span the globe — the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians, the Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine, the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, and the American Osteopathic Association of Sports Medicine. Our relationship with each of these groups of SEM clinicians is invaluable.

It takes a village, as they say — and in CJSM’s case, it truly is a global village.  This worldwide community creates one of the premier sports journals in existence, one that offers one of the richest platforms for the publication of new, original research.

And it’s because of this village that I can report CJSM just received an early holiday present: this blog has been named in the top 60 sports medicine blogs (#8 to be precise) of 2017.

Joy to the world!

Thanks to all the readers of the journal and this blog, the authors and reviewers, the editors and the innumerable other members of the community with which we engage on social media.

Happy Holidays, and see you in 2018 for our first edition of the New Year.