Professional Development Articles
Updates about the annual meeting, educational events, and new resources
I am thrilled to announce that the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine received an Impact Factor of 3.429, according to the 2016 Journal Citation Reports®, and a 5-year Impact Factor of 4.067, the highest it has ever been.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is soliciting written comments on the proposed framework for Healthy People 2030, which will guide the selection and prioritization of the 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.
The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics recently released the chartbook, “Health, United States, 2016,” which represents the 40th annual report card on the nation’s health. It includes a data table showing that the percentage of high school students who got fewer than 8 hours of sleep on an average school night increased from 68.3% in 2013 to 72.7% in 2015.
These articles that have been posted on the AASM website in 2017 received the most online pageviews from Jan. 1 – June 29.
These articles that have been published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine in 2017 received the most online pageviews from Jan. 1 – June 29.
The AASM is pleased to report that the impact factor for the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine reached a new high of 3.429 in 2016, according to Thomson Reuters.
Congratulations to the three winners of the SLEEP Trail contest that took place during SLEEP 2017. With hundreds of submissions, these three lucky winners blazed a new path and took home great prizes.
The AASM and JCSM Editor Nancy Collop, MD, congratulate Emerson Wickwire, PhD, and Christina McCrae, PhD, who recently were named recipients of the Stuart Quan Award for Editorial Excellence.
Science writers and health reporters from national media outlets provided in-depth coverage of research presented at SLEEP 2017 in Boston.
The American Sleep Medicine Foundation (ASMF) has chosen two sleep scientists to receive research awards, and two dentists also have been selected to receive research awards from the ASMF through a new partnership with the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM).