Thanks to our peer reviewers

The publication of Issue 4 marks the completion of Volume 8 of Learning Health Systems. An international, trans-disciplinary, open access publication, the journal has advanced research and scholarship on learning health systems in partnership with our reviewers. With indexing in multiple major sources and an Impact Factor of 2.6, we have achieved a publication milestone that signals a sustainable, positive trajectory. Articles from the journal were downloaded over 123, 126 times in 2023.

Each year, the journal publishes a Special Issue; we have now published eight Special Issues: “Patient Empowerment and the Learning Health System” (v.1); “Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Learning Health Systems” (v.2); “Learning Health Systems: Connecting Research to Practice Worldwide” (v.3); “Human Phenomics and the Learning Health System” (v.4); “Collaborative Learning Health Systems: Science and Practice” (v.5); and “Education To Meet the Multidisciplinary Workforce Needs of Learning Health Systems” (v.6); “Transforming Health Through Computable Biomedical Knowledge (CBK)” (v.7); and “Envisioning Public Health As a Learning Health System” (v.8). Our talented guest editors have been instrumental in helping these Special Issues come to fruition.

In addition, we published a Supplement (“Focus on Research by AcademyHealth members”) in June 2024. The Supplement was a collaboration with the Department of Learning Health Sciences (University of Michigan), Academy Health, (LHS Interest Group), and John Wiley & Sons.

We are keenly aware that these achievements would not have happened without the dedicated efforts and insightful comments of all those individuals who accepted invitations to review submitted articles. With busy schedules and full commitments, these individuals found the time and energy to contribute their expertise to our authors to help ensure that their papers met (and often exceeded) the journal's high standards for publication.

Please accept our sincere gratitude for your outstanding efforts!

Charles P. Friedman, Editor in Chief