Reflections

After celebrating the 25th birthday of the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery in 2021 and emerging from the first pandemic in a century, 2022 could have been unremarkable by comparison. But true to its 25-year-old spirit, JCRS took on 2022 with enthusiasm and a determination to make the new year count. We are pleased to share a snapshot of this progress. JCRS achieved its highest-ever Impact Factor this year. At 3.528, up from 3.351 and 2.689 in the preceding years, JCRS ranks as the highest impact journal dedicated to the anterior segment surgery field. We thank the authors, board members, and reviewers who continue to support publication of manuscripts that help advance science and change practice. Reviewers have embraced the opportunity to receive continuing education credits for their service, an initiative we implemented in 2021. Please browse the JCRS 100 Club member list, published in this issue (page 1483), and our online reviewer appreciation list, and join us in thanking them for their selfless commitment to peer review. In late 2022, the scope of the JCRS Online Case Reports (JCRO) journal (jcrscasereports.com) was expanded to include Technique articles. As introduced in our August editorial, this move will allow the journals to highlight practical advances in the operating room in a more media-friendly, online-only format that emphasizes immediacy and allows for greater sharing than was possible in the print journal.1 We are grateful for the dedication and vision of the JCRO Editors-in-Chief Filomena Ribeiro, MD, PhD, FEBO, and Craig See, MD, and our new Technique Editors Jonathan E. Moore, FRCOphth, PhD, and Shameema Sikder, MD. JCRO views and downloads continue to increase, and the publisher is preparing an application for indexing in PubMed for 2023. The JCRS editors have also convened committees of stakeholders on emerging publication challenges in cataract and refractive surgery to work toward consensus and best practices, the first product of which is a multi-author manuscript in the November issue of JCRS addressing updated standards for reporting outcomes of intraocular lens-based surgeries involving monofocal, extended depth-of-focus (EDOF), and multifocal implants.2 The goal of these efforts is to foster comparability of reported outcomes and to enhance the validity and clinical impact of papers ultimately published in JCRS. Stay tuned for more in 2023. The editors also wish to express our deepest gratitude and appreciation to our editorial staff: Managing Editor Genie Bailey, Peer Review/Publications Manager Jackie Garcia, Editorial Assistant Alison Jefferson, and Social Media Editor Laura Beard, as well as our publisher liaison Shelley Withers. JCRS would not be possible without their talent and hard work. We also thank Robert Osher, MD, who is sharing his passion for education by contributing a year-long series highlighting practical pearls for the young cataract surgeon. These articles are not just for young cataract surgeons, however! Before we conclude, we encourage you to look over the table of contents and consider the range of topics you see within the pages of one issue of the journal. In addition to clinically impactful comparative studies of different approaches to advanced surface ablation (Shao et al., page 1413), femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery vs conventional cataract surgery (Cai et al., page 1381), canuloplasty vs medication in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (Ondrejka et al., page 1388), and visual disturbances with different EDOF and monofocal lens implants (Guarro et al., page 1354), you will find studies on refractive surgery screening with optical coherence tomography-based corneal and epithelial thickness maps (Yücekul et al., page 1360) and corneal crosslinking for thin corneas also treated with topography-guided photorefractive keratectomy (Salimi et al., page 1366). This issue also includes 2 registry-based papers on anesthesia techniques and outcomes in cataract surgery (Phero et al., page 1472, and Segers et al., page 1403), evaluation of a new patient-reported outcome measure for vision correction surgery (Frings et al., page 1427), the impact of personality on decision-making and satisfaction in pseudophakic presbyopic corrections (Ntonti et al., page 1433), and the first-ever report on the descriptive characteristics of cornea and anterior segment fellowship directors (Lam et al., page 1419). These are only half of the articles in the December 2022 issue, and they reflect the mission of JCRS to inform the entire scope of surgical anterior segment practice with quality research. We hope you find these topics as interesting and useful as we do. Thank you for being a reader of JCRS, but also please consider submitting your own work and serving as a peer reviewer. Peace and joy in the New Year! William J. Dupps Jr, MD, PhD Thomas Kohnen, MD, PhD, FEBO Sathish Srinivasan, FRCSEd, FRCOphth, FACS Liliana Werner, MD, PhD