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Editorial

^a Editor-in-Chief, The Gerontologist Duke University October 2000

There is talk of adding 16 pages per issue to The Gerontologist (TG) in 2001 to offer new features to our readers, with the intention of making the journal more engaging, more provocative, and more informative. The GSA Task Force on the Future of TG, chaired by Dr. Donna Lind Infeld, may recommend to GSA Council that the additional pages be used to expand beyond the Research Articles, Practice Concepts, Book Reviews, and Audiovisual Reviews that have served us so well for so long, and which will be continued at their current levels.

Among the suggestions for expansion include:

— Periodic peer-reviewed features such as Policy Concepts and Education Concepts to join Practice Concepts;

— Invited one-page Commentaries for certain articles to expand on their relevance or provide additional perspectives;

— Peer-reviewed discussions of Emerging Topics such as the use of centenarians for research, federal support for testing longevity compounds, expectations from stem cell research on curative medicine, or policy implications of biological or clinical research;

— New, periodic columns such as Inside the Beltway or Outside the Ivory Tower or What's New at NIA; and

— Invited peer-reviewed Primers, Viewpoints, and Insights from various fellows and leaders in GSA.

I hope to pilot some of these ideas in the months to come, and thereby make TG more engaging and more useful. At the same time, we will build on our strong scientific foundation as evidenced by our top rating among GSA's publications in the Geriatrics and Gerontology category in the 1998 Journal Citation Reports—Social Science Edition. We are very interested in reactions to these suggested expansions. Please e-mail your comments both to Dr. Infeld on behalf of the Task Force on the Future of TG at and to me as editor at .

By the way, this is a milestone issue for me—it includes the first articles that were reviewed and accepted by my editorial team (averaging 92 days from initial submission to final acceptance). Perhaps the time between acceptance and publication can be reduced in the future, while of course avoiding the risk of an issue with too few articles—no one wants to err in that direction.

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