The 2022 year has been an "active" one for the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention (JCRP). I have provided a summary of some of the major actions related to JCRP in this column.

We welcomed three new Associate Editors, Dr Sherry Grace, Dr Joel Hughes, and Dr Dan Stevens, to our Editorial team along with 6 new Editorial Board Members (replacing members retiring off the Board). All have provided healthy doses of the four E's, Expertise, Energy, Enthusiasm, and Engagement, to JCRP.

JCRP was the first, and remains the only, professional journal dedicated to improving multidisciplinary clinical practice and expanding research evidence specific to both Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. In 2022, JCRP also celebrated 15 yr of expanding its scope to include primary Prevention of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. I am grateful to two of our Editorial Board Members, Dr Diann Gaalema and Dr Charles German, for their work as Guest Editors of the Special Focused Section on Prevention in this issue of JCRP. I am sure you will find the four Invited Reviews informative. I believe they will stimulate clinicians to increase efforts to empower individuals to actively pursue preventive lifestyle practices.

We continued to apply feedback from our Editorial Board and our readers to improve the quality of the Journal. In 2022, we included a new submission category for Rapid Reviews of manuscripts previously submitted, but not accepted, to high-impact clinical journals. We added a feature-Key Perspectives-which provides a concise summary of the key message and clinical/research relevance of the manuscript for our readers. We also now require all accepted manuscripts to provide a Visual Abstract, which we use to promote each manuscript on our social media platforms.

The dedicated and timely work of our Associate Editors, our Managing Editor, our Content Editor, and our Reviewers has allowed us to shorten the average time from the author submission of a manuscript to JCRP to the first decision provided to authors from 29 d in 2018 to ~15 d currently. All of this has led to a noticeable improvement in the overall quality of submissions to JCRP, which has resulted in raising the Journal's Impact Factor to 3.646 (top 50th percentile for all Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems journals) and our Cite Score to 3.9 (top 20th percentile for all Rehabilitation journals). I listed the most cited articles from the 39th, 40th, and 41st issues of JCRP in the Table. I encourage you to check out these high-performing articles and the many others in these recent JCRP issues.

Table Most Cited Articles From

I hope many of you will add your four E's to JCRP in 2023.

Lenny Kaminsky, PhD, MAACVPR, FACSM, FAHA Editor-in-Chief Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention

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