From the Editor
Welcome to Our 15th Issue of SMRJ!
Our editorial office team members would like to welcome you to the second issue of Volume 7 of your PubMed Central-indexed Spartan Medical Research Journal (SMRJ). As you can see in the Table of Contents, this issue is comprised of a nice array of nine research, quality improvement, clinical practice and systematic review articles from regional medical students, residents, and faculty! We continue to invite submissions from both Statewide Campus System (SCS) affiliates and non-affiliate authors!
To date, our SMRJ has now published over 134 articles! Since publication of our last V7N1 issue, your journal received 48,914 webpage views from 36,141 unique visitors, with 536 article downloads. Approximately 24% of these journal page views are from other countries.
Our editorial team continues to gratefully depend on the large number of expert reviewers to evaluate SMRJ submissions. If you have an interest in participating as a SMRJ reviewer or any other journal comments or suggestions, please contact: smrj@msu.edu.
Our editorial team would like to thank departing member Ms. Rachel Duckett who has left our team since last issue as editorial assistant after completing her Journalism degree. We wish Rachel the very best with her future endeavors!
The editorial team would also like to thank Maria Rising, our Assistant Editor and Scholarly Activity Outreach Specialist for her time with SMRJ. She wishes the best for all past and future authors and reviewers and hopes to be able to continue helping others in their pursuits of scholarly activities in the future.
Dr. Bill Corser will be retiring from MSU on November 1st, this SMRJ issue will be his last issue serving as your Chief Editor since the founding of SMRJ in 2016 and 22 years at MSU. Bill would like to wish all SMRJ authors, reviewers and editorial office team members the very best as future personnel maintaining SMRJ provides readers with future issues.
We hope that you enjoy this issue and welcome any feedback!
Sincerely,
Bill Corser, PhD, Chief Editor, corser@msu.edu; (517) 918-3470
Sam Wisniewski, MS, Associate Editor
Maria Rising, PhD(c), Assistant Editor & Scholarly Activity Outreach Specialist