Quality: A Community Commitment

Today one can no longer trust what you hear or read. It seems that everyone is out to mislead the other. The words “fake news” has become part of our lexicon.

Science needs to be stay away from this new reality. We as a community rely on one another to ensure that what is published has gone through the filters of our community via the “peer review” process. This time-tested process has served the scientific community through the ages and has led to our reliability on new information.

This process is however a fragile one. It is dependent on the participation of the members of the community, i.e., our reviewers. In our ever-busier lives, we struggle to find time to do our jobs and continue to find the perfect work-life balance. This equilibrium is disrupted by requests to review manuscripts for various journals. The temptation is often to simply decline the review because we lack the time to incorporate this new intrusion into our schedule. Alternatively, we agree but let it sit in the manuscript purgatory until a few reminders later when we simply render a hasty review often lacking in substance and with little constructive recommendations to the authors.

Our journal, CMTR, is now stronger than ever before. A review of the past issues clearly demonstrates that the journal is moving in the right direction. It continues to build upon its strong foundation established by the previous editor, Prof. Paul Manson. The quality and quantity of submissions continue to increase. Now more than ever we are reliant on the review process to keep the trend.

A timely, well thought out review allows the authors of the submitted manuscript to review the provided recommendations and make, whenever possible, the needed corrections to strengthen their manuscript and get it ready for a hopeful acceptance. CMTR benefits from this by ensuring our authors a fair and critical review of their work and a strong platform to disseminate their study findings. The strength of our journal is directly linked to the interest of our community in seeing that it succeeds. We are grateful to all our reviewers, and all who have chosen to submit their work to CMTR.

We are looking forward to the continued growth of the journal and to its evolution into an Open Journal that will allow for your work to have an even greater platform. In just, your journal is healthier than ever and for that we offer our sincerest thanks.

Editors-in-Chief

Rui Fernandes, Sat Parmar