Telehealth leadership,2021 JTT statistics and acknowledgments

The 2019 Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has generated exponential growth in the use of telehealth, in a diverse range of clinical settings. ¹ No doubt, telehealth continues to transform the way health services are delivered. Whilst we can base our views on decades of published experience demonstrating the feasibility, benefits (and challenges) of telehealth, one promising development emerging through the pandemic, has been the increased awareness from a consumer perspective. As more people experience telehealth personally, we anticipate an ongoing expectation that telehealth services will continue to be provided as part of routine healthcare. This raises challenges in the way we actively change models of care, train our workforce, engage with consumers, and ensure sure that systems (infrastructure, information, and funding) are configured appropriately to sustain telehealth services into the future. ²

From an Editor's perspective, we might be able to gauge telehealth advancement by the number, diversity and quality of manuscripts being submitted to the journal. Since the onset of the pandemic, the total number of manuscripts being submitted to the journal have continued to increase. In the last 12 months, a total of 1055 manuscripts were submitted to the JTT, compared to 954 the year before. Of these, about 25% were sent out for peer-review after editorial consultation, and about the same proportion were referred to alternative journals (such as discipline specific journals). The Impact Factor of 6.184 is the highest ever score to date for the JTT. In terms of ranking, the JTT is the leading journal in its field, and is in the top 10% of journals in the category of Health care Sciences and Services. These achievements reflect the efforts of the JTT editorial and production teams, authors, peer-reviewers, and our international readers.

Professor Anthony Smith, Editor-in-Chief

Professor Gary Doolittle, Co-Editor

Publication statistics

Publication statistics are of important for our authors, subscribers and journal publisher. They also allow the identification of long-term trends relating to the JTT. During 2021, the average length of time from submission to first decision was 14 days. The average length of time between the submission of a manuscript and a final decision was 18 days. In 2021, the average days from acceptance to publication online is 30 days. The proportion of submitted papers accepted for publication in the JTT was 11%.

Bibliometric statistics

Bibliometric statistics are compiled each year by Clarivate Analytics. The JTT is included in the ‘Health care sciences and services’ category which covers 108 journals in the Journal Citation Reports. The ratio between the number of citations and the number of articles published gives the impact factor. The JTT published 147 citable articles and received 909 citations. The JTT's impact factor was 6.184 and the journal ranked 8^th out of 108 and is in the first quartile in this category.