With this July 2020 issue, I officially begin my term as Editor-In-Chief of our Stroke journal. We stand on the shoulders of giants for all those who have contributed to this journal over the last 50 years. Our field has rapidly advanced and so has the journal over the decades, but we would not be where we are today without the dedicated work of so many authors, reviewers, and editors. I start my term with a sincere acknowledgment of gratitude for everyone who has helped us achieve success. I would like to particularly thank the outgoing senior editorial leadership team led by my friend and colleague, Marc Fisher, and the prior deputy editor, Karen Furie. I have learned much from them and hope we can continue the many initiatives they have started as we chart our new course forward.

Over the last 6 months, we have established a new senior editorial leadership team and have been developing a great working relationship to manage the journal. Getting Argye Hillis aboard as our deputy editor has been a great help because she was one of the associate editors for the last 5 years and has a terrific depth of knowledge regarding editorial responsibilities and the recent history of the journal. We have expanded the number of associate editors to 10 including 6 clinical, 2 basic/translational science, and 2 population science editors. All of them are accomplished and experienced members of the editorial board and have been assistant or consulting editors and excellent prior reviewers for the journal. I am relying on them as the steering committee for the journal. Our team is getting to know one another and getting into a good rhythm as we handle the markedly increased article submissions coming to the journal during this unprecedented coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Nothing like starting with a bang, we have been breaking prior records and handled 402 submissions in April, as the outgoing team managed 356 submissions in March (285 per month on average in 2019).

I have engaged Marc Fisher and Karen Furie as Senior Consulting Editors to work with our new team of Consulting Editors. This group of handling editors manage all manuscripts where there could be any conflict of interests with the Editor-In-Chief, Deputy Editor, or associate editors. Please welcome our new group of 28 consulting editors consisting of 14 men and 14 women, half of whom are international.

We have expanded the number of sections to 36 areas to fully engage across the many disciplines that make up our field. Some new sections include Brain Health, Digital Health, Disparities, Neuro-Cardiology, Neuro-hospitalist, Quality Improvement, Stroke in Children, Stroke in Women, Vascular Biology, and multiple Treatment sections. We will maintain our commitment to International Stroke Early Career and Training, Illustrative Teaching Cases, Stroke Literature Synopses, and the Cochrane Corner. We are also planning to launch a Patient Page, podcasts, and expand the use of digital and social media.

One of the responsibilities for some of our section editors will be to write an annual Advances in Stroke article briefly summarizing some breaking news in their discipline. Rather than try to cram these all into the February issue and summarize the prior calendar year, we are planning a rolling submission of these articles hoping for maybe 2 Advances articles in each issue to keep our readers up to date about some breaking information in a particular area of stroke. Please look for these in the coming months. In this issue, please welcome the many new section editors and essential members of our team.

One of the new initiatives that we are instituting is to greatly expand the use of triage reviews. We can only publish a small fraction of the many great submissions we receive with a target acceptance rate of 12%, which unfortunately means that 88% of all manuscripts get rejected. With the rapidly growing number of journals on the market and expanding avenues of science, we are all being asked to review more manuscripts and make decisions more quickly. We remain concerned about reviewer burnout, so we are planning to increase the utilization of triage review that will lead to more letters labeled “reject without full review.” We have greatly expanded the number of assistant editors to 40 outstanding individuals (20 women, 20 men; 20 international), and we will plan to call upon them especially for triage reviews. For our authors who work so hard to write and submit their manuscripts, we want to provide you some critical feedback in a timely manner. Although the amount of peer review may be less than you would like, I believe it is better to know the results more rapidly, get some words of advice, and then prepare your manuscript for a different journal with the ultimate goal of getting your work published somewhere more quickly.

To assure the continued high quality of all of our published articles, we have expanded our statistical editors to 2 senior statisticians to help coordinate the statistical reviews of our manuscript submissions. We have also added 2 technical editors to make sure our accepted manuscripts adhere to AHA and other scientific standards for reporting scientific data.

We have also reviewed and expanded the entire masthead of our large editorial board. For those who are ending their terms on the board, I want to sincerely thank you for your years of service and hope to still call upon you from time to time. For our new board members, thank you for your commitment and welcome aboard. We have made a strong effort to increase the number of women and diverse members of the board and maintain our targeted balance of 50% international colleagues.

For our authors, we have simplified our instructions for authors, expanded some of the page limits, and added a new article type. Original research remains the most frequent article type and can be clinical, population science, or basic/translational science with an expanded word limit of 6000. Brief reports can also cover those topic areas but are much shorter at 2000 words and 15 references. We will be launching a new article type labeled Research Letters. These brief 800-word articles with only 1 figure and no abstract are very focused and meant to make an important innovative point in any topic areas covered by Stroke. We are also consolidating our multiple review article types into one category labeled Reviews that will consist of Topical reviews, Focused Updates (a collection of review articles), and Basic Science Advances for Clinicians. We will be expanding the number of solicited reviews to provide state of the art summaries of topics relevant to many of our readers.

We will continue to highlight articles in each issue with editor’s picks, Continuing Medical Education (CME) selections, and plan to add more invited editorials to put the work we publish in perspective. We are also making a push to add more invited commentary including special reports, news from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, StrokeNet Update, international news, Stroke History, and Leadership Profiles in future issues.

We are also very fortunate to be working with an accomplished managing editor team led by Rebecca Seastrong. We have kept her and the two assistant managing editors, and the editorial assistant quite busy over the last few months preparing for the transition, as we also simultaneously continue to handle the many manuscripts coming into the journal. They are a great group of hardworking managers who help keep the ship cruising at a very rapid speed.

With this issue, we also are launching a new look for Stroke with a new appealing modern font. I also hope you notice the new accent colors. We are sticking with our traditional yellow, but adding a new teal accent color. Some of my fellow editors thought it may be a little too Miami! We are only in the beginning of what I hope will be more great years of progress for Stroke. I look forward to working with all of you, hearing about your exciting work, and reviewing suggestions and any thoughts you may have about how we can make the journal better. I am truly excited and humbled to be leading such a great team of editorial board members to help chart a course for what is ultimately our journal.

Dr Sacco receives personal compensation from the American Heart Association as Editor-In-Chief of Stroke; grant support from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for the Northern Manhattan Study, and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for the Clinical Translational Science Award, and other National Institutes of Health grants; Florida Department of Health for the Florida Stroke Registry.

从2020年7月号开始，我正式开始担任《中风》杂志的总编辑。在过去50年中，为所有对此杂志做出贡献的人们，我们都站在巨人的肩膀上。几十年来，我们的领域迅速发展，期刊也是如此。但是，如果没有如此多的作者，审阅者和编辑们的辛勤工作，我们将不会成为今天的现状。首先，我对所有帮助我们取得成功的人表示诚挚的谢意。我要特别感谢由我的朋友和同事马克·费舍尔（Marc Fisher）以及前副编辑凯伦·弗里（Karen Furie）领导的即将离任的高级编辑领导团队。我从他们身上学到了很多东西，并希望我们在制定新路线时能够继续他们所发起的许多倡议。

在过去的6个月中，我们建立了新的高级编辑领导团队，并一直在建立良好的工作关系来管理该期刊。使Argye Hillis成为我们的副编辑，对她有很大的帮助，因为她在过去5年中是副编辑之一，并且对编辑职责和该杂志的近期历史有深入的了解。我们已将副编辑的人数增加到10名，其中包括6名临床，2名基础/翻译科学和2名人口科学编辑。所有这些人都是编辑委员会的资深成员，并且是该杂志的助理或顾问编辑以及出色的先前审阅者。我依靠他们作为该杂志的指导委员会。我们的团队正在彼此了解并掌握良好的节奏，因为在这种史无前例的2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行期间，我们处理进入该期刊的文章提交量显着增加。就像爆炸一样，我们一直在打破先前的记录，并在4月处理了402个提交，因为即将离任的团队在3月管理了356个提交（2019年平均每月285个）。

我已经聘请Marc Fisher和Karen Furie为高级咨询编辑，与我们新的咨询编辑团队一起工作。这组处理编辑会管理所有可能与总编辑，副编辑或副编辑有利益冲突的手稿。请欢迎我们由28位咨询编辑组成的新小组，其中包括14位男性和14位女性，其中一半来自国际。

我们已将部门的数量扩展到36个领域，以充分参与构成我们领域的许多学科。一些新的部分包括脑健康，数字健康，差异，神经心脏病学，神经医院，质量改善，儿童中风，妇女中风，血管生物学以及多种治疗部分。我们将继续致力于国际卒中早期职业和培训，说明性教学案例，卒中文学提要和Cochrane角。我们还计划启动“患者页面”，播客，并扩大数字和社交媒体的使用范围。

我们的部分编辑的职责之一是撰写年度卒中进展文章，简要总结其学科领域的一些重大新闻。我们计划将这些文章滚动提交，而不是试图将所有文章都塞入2月的期刊并总结上一日历年，以期在每期中可能会有2篇Advances文章，以使读者了解有关特定主题的一些最新信息。中风面积。请在未来几个月中寻找这些。在本期杂志中，欢迎许多新版块的编辑和我们团队的重要成员。

我们正在采取的一项新举措是大大扩展分类检查的使用范围。我们只能发表我们收到的大量优秀论文中的一小部分，目标接受率为12％，这意味着88％的所有稿件被拒绝。随着市场上期刊数量的迅速增长以及科学领域的不断扩展，我们都被要求审查更多的手稿并更快地做出决策。我们仍然担心审稿人的工作倦怠，因此我们计划增加对分类审阅的利用率，这将导致更多标有“没有完整审阅就被拒绝”的信函。我们已将助理编辑人员的数量大大增加到40位杰出人物（20位女性，20位男性； 20位国际人员），并且我们计划特别要求他们进行分类审查。对于那些努力编写和提交稿件的作者，我们希望及时为您提供一些重要的反馈。尽管同行评审的数量可能少于您的期望，但我认为最好更快地了解结果，提出一些建议，然后为另一本期刊准备稿子，最终目的是使您的论文发表更快的地方。

为了确保我们所有已发表文章的高质量，我们将统计编辑人员扩大到2位高级统计学家，以帮助协调对稿件提交的统计审查。我们还增加了2名技术编辑，以确保我们接受的稿件遵守AHA和其他科学标准以报告科学数据。

我们还审查并扩大了大型编委会的整个刊头。对于那些即将结束董事会任职的人，我要衷心感谢您的多年服务，并希望仍然不时致电给您。对于我们的新董事会成员，感谢您的承诺并欢迎您的加入。我们已经做出了巨大的努力，以增加女性和董事会成员的人数，并保持50％的国际同事达到目标平衡。

对于我们的作者，我们简化了对作者的说明，扩展了一些页面限制，并添加了新的文章类型。原始研究仍然是最常见的文章类型，可以是临床，人口科学或基础/翻译科学，扩展的单词限制为6000。简短的报告也可以涵盖这些主题领域，但要短于2000个单词和15个参考文献。我们将启动一个名为Research Letters的新文章类型。这些简短的800字文章仅包含1个数字，没有摘要，非常注重重点，旨在在Stroke涵盖的任何主题领域中都提出重要的创新点。我们还将多种评论文章类型整合为一个标签为“评论”的类别，其中包括主题评论，重点更新（评论文章的集合）和临床医生的基础科学进展。我们将扩大征求评论的数量，以提供与许多读者相关的最新主题的摘要。

我们将继续在每期杂志上重点介绍编辑精选，继续医学教育（CME）的文章，并计划增加更多受邀社论，以使我们发表的论文更具视角。我们也正在努力添加更多的受邀评论，包括特别报告，来自国家神经疾病与中风研究所的新闻，StrokeNet更新，国际新闻，中风病史以及未来情况中的领导力简介。

我们也很幸运能与Rebecca Seastrong领导的一支经验丰富的执行编辑团队合作。在过去的几个月中，我们一直让她和两位助理总编辑保持忙碌，为过渡做准备，因为我们同时也继续处理许多进入期刊的稿件。他们是一群勤奋的管理人员，他们帮助船舶以极快的速度巡航。

在本期杂志中，我们还将以新颖的现代字体为Stroke推出新外观。我也希望您注意到新的装饰色。我们坚持使用传统的黄色，但增加了新的蓝绿色饰色。我的一些编辑认为也可能是迈阿密！我们才刚刚开始，希望Stroke能够取得更大的发展。我期待着与大家一起工作，听到您激动人心的工作，并复习建议以及您对我们如何改善期刊的想法。能够领导如此庞大的编辑委员会成员，帮助我们规划出最终成为我们期刊的课程，我感到非常激动和谦卑。

萨科博士（Dr Sacco）从美国心脏协会（American Heart Association）担任中风总编辑；美国国家神经疾病和中风研究所对北曼哈顿研究的资助，以及美国国家转化科学促进中心的临床转化科学奖和其他美国国立卫生研究院的资助；佛罗里达卫生部佛罗里达中风登记处。