Published-Ahead-of-Print August 1, 2007, DOI:10.2164/jandrol.107.003715
Journal of Andrology, Vol. 28, No. 6, November/December 2007
Copyright © American Society of Andrology
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.107.003715
Goodbye
MATTHEW P. HARDY AND
PETER N. SCHLEGEL
In 2002, the editorial office of the Journal of Andrology migrated
eastward from Minneapolis after 10 years in Minnesota and went to New York,
where it operated out of a cubicle at the Population Council and the office of
the chair of the Department of Urology at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Although this transition was only five years ago, it marked another era for
the journal. During our time as editors, processing of manuscripts, spanning
file submission to final publication, became a completely digital process. The
editorial office ceased to be a major customer of Federal Express and relied
more heavily on local information technology personnel to transmit files. The
passage of the physical to virtual reality culminated in a decision in 2005 to
administer the editorial office out of Madison, Wisconsin, with Jansen
Editorial Services and use the online manuscript tracking system of HighWire
Press. Many aspects of the journal's operations have become automated, but the
fundamental parts of being an editor have been retained. That comes down to
the humbling responsibility of defining the clinical and basic science of
andrology.
Although we grew accustomed to the winnowing of submitted manuscripts and
the selective acceptances for publication after receiving the critical
appraisals and evaluations of our reviewers, the thrill of being at the
forefront of andrology research was sustained. We remain grateful to the
American Society of Andrology for entrusting us with this responsibility and
shall fondly remember interactions with all of the various people with whom we
came into contact. We cannot go without naming a few: our section editors and
members of the editorial board, the ad hoc reviewers, the two chairs of the
Publication Committee (Bernard Robaire and Marvin Meistrich), Jennifer
Bellask, the editorial assistant who was instrumental in setting up our office
shop in New York, and Judy Jansen and her staff for moving the journal to
online editorial management.
Under the capable direction of the new team of editors—Bud Burnett,
Sally Perreault, and Jay Sandlow—the journal will undoubtedly change,
which we support, to reflect the ongoing progress of our field. We do not know
what the next report of a genetic deletion affecting spermatogenesis or future
advance in culture and genomic manipulation of spermatogonial stem cells will
be, but we expect that the most interesting and exciting results of the
world's andrological investigators will continue to grace our pages.
