The year 2006 was a banner year for the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (JRRD). The JRRD Web site (http://www.rehab.research.va.gov) experienced more than 3.3 million downloads, up 101 percent from the previous year. We introduced a "cluster searching" tool to our Web site that allows concentrated searching of defined topics within JRRD articles and archival materials, which currently date back to 1977 and are accessed regularly. Moreover, we revamped the content and look of the lay person's "JRRD at a Glance" to enhance its readability and published four single-topic issues devoted to multiple sclerosis, poststroke rehabilitation, robotics, and vision rehabilitation, which is more than any previous year.

We made significant strides in our behind-the-scenes editorial work as well, increasing the JRRD rejection rate to almost 40 percent and reducing the average time from submission to publication to 10.7 months. The average time from the initial full review to a first decision was 66 days; if a revision was required, a second decision was reached in an average of 36 days. In 2006, JRRD received more than 700 reviews, with an average of 3.8 and a range of 1 to 5 reviews per paper. Since 2002, when we began evaluating editorial metadata, we have had a 36 percent increase in the number of pages published each year and a 54 percent increase in the number of subscribers! To increase the value-added data of JRRD articles, we added online appendixes and direct hyperlinks from online references to PubMed. Finally, the JRRD Editorial Board adopted and implemented the conflict of interest policy and clinical trial registration recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.

Our 2006 achievements would not have been possible without the help of our Editor in Chief, Dr. Robert L. Ruff; our distinguished Editorial Board; and the 312 JRRD reviewers whom we would like to publicly thank in the following pages. We deeply appreciate all who volunteered their time and expertise to review JRRD submissions. We hope that the relationships we have cultivated will continue and expand. As always, we welcome your input. Thank you.

Stacieann C. Yuhasz, PhD

JRRD Peer Reviewers in 2006

A	Laura J. Cohen	Lesher Greg	Henry Lew
Judy Abrahamson	Rose Collins	Roxann Diez Gross	Albert Lo
Linda Accordino	Gery Colombo		Jack A. Loeppky
Nathan D. Ainspan	Adriana Conforto	H	Paul Lysaker
Michael Aiona	Paul Conlin	Andrew Hansen
Asghar Akbari	Kathryn Corson	Laurie L. Harkness	M
Majd Alwan	David Crandell	Ilan Harpaz-Rotem	Setsuo Maeda
Beth Angell	William J. Culpepper	Jodie K. Haselkorn	Laurence S. Magder
Diane J. Atkins	Mehdi Dadgoo	Alicia Heapy	Arthur Manoli
Edmond Ayyappa	Wayne Daly	Mark Hedrick	Ralph Marino
	Christine Detrembleur	Ann Hendricks	William J. Marks
Tim Bach	Eric Dieperink	Jay Hertel	Neil McCartney
Byron Bair	Mark Dohring	Susan Hillier	Brendan McHugh
Matthew J. Bair	Charles Drebing	Joseph Himle	Mark McMulkin
Mohammad Bayat	E	Thomas Hornick	David Miller
John Beauvais	Joan E. Edelstein	Chris Hughes	Maurice Miller
Andrea Behrman	Albert Esquenazi	J	Kim Muesser
Heather Belanger		Yih-Kuen Jan	Janet A. Mulcare
Leonid Bendersky	Michael Falvo	Michiel J. A. Jannink	Nan Musson
Kousick Biswas	Meika A. Fang	Thomas W. J. Janssen	Paula Myers
Donna Jo Blaka	Susan E. Fasoli	Huanguang Jia
Ross Bogey	Stefania Fatone	Mike Jones	N
Gary R. Bond	Stephen F. Figoni	Jeff Jutai	Stephen E. Nadeau
Dennis Bourdette	Donald C. Fletcher		Edward Neumann
Mark G. Bowden	Joshua Fogel	K	Alex Ng
John H. Bowker	Kevin Fontain	Han Kang	Nannette Nicholson
Douglas D. Bradham	Cynthia G. Fowler	Kerry Kelly	Jonathan Norton
L. Jerome Brandon	Benedikt Friemert	Jae Kennedy	Mary Novotny
Ursula Braun	Stacy L. Fritz	Robert Kern
David M. Brienza	Brad Fullerton	Ronald Lee Kirby	O
Marybeth Brown		Sara R. Koehler	Maria O'Connell
Scott E. Brown	G	Alicia Koontz	Eric C. Odgaard
Eduardo Bruera	Kara Gagnon	Brian R. Kotajarvi	Hisaichi Ohnabe
Denis Brunt	Robert Gailey	Kathryn Kotrla	Teruaki Okuda
Gary J. Bryson	Linda Ganzini	Ken´ichi Koyanagi	Michael S. Orendurff
Robyn M. Burgess	Susan L. Garber	Vladimir A. Kulyukin	John David Otis
	Steven A. Gard	Sooyeon Kwon	Sevgi Ozalevli
C	Andrew W. Gardner
James H. Campbell	William Garvert	L	P
Timothy Carmody	Amit Gefen	Sam Landsberger	Adrian Pace
William Carne	Mark D. Geil	Susan Langmore	William Padula
Edward Chadwick	David L. Gillespie	Janet Larsen	William F. Page
Angela Chan	Ronald Gironda	Cathy L. Lazarus	Judith Paice
Ming Chan	Shirley Glynn	Jung Hee Lee	Carlo Palazzi
Howard Chansky	Paul Goering	Stephen Leff	Patricia Parmelee
Eric M. Cheng	James Goh	Gordon Legge	Carolynn Patten
Howard Chizeck	Leonard Goldschmidt	Edward Lemaire	Rita Patterson
Kenneth Ciuffreda	Victoria L. Goosey-Tolfrey	James Leonard	Lorna Paul
Michael E. Clark	Philippe Gorce	Nathan Levin	Louis Peeraer
Helen S. Cohen	Frank A. B. Gottschalk	Charles Levy	Jacquelin Perry

Justin Petrolla	Anindo Roy	Phyllis Solomon	Lucas Van der Woude
Chetan Purushottam Phadke	Rients Rozendal	Stephen Sprigle	Linda Van Roosmalen
Michael Steven Pinzur	Robert J. Ruben	Ann M. Spungen	Zshorlich Volker
Mark Pitkin	Zlatka Russinova	Gordon Starkebaum
Dejan B. Popovic		Bonnie G. Steele	W
Marcel Post	S	James Steiger	Jaye Wald
Neil Postans	Cristina Sadowsky	Christopher Michael Storey	Gale R. Watson
Michael Potter	Yukari Sakiyama	Christian Dale Strasser	Lawrence Weinberger
Gail Powell-Cope	David John Sanderson	Michael W. Stroud	Deborah Weiner
T. B. Price	Bonnie J. Sawatzky	Bryan Sweet	Sharon Weinstein
Jama L. Purser	Marcia J. Scherer	Malgorzata Syczewska	Michael I. Weintraub
	Mark Schlmeler		Kelly P. Westlake
R	Lawrence W. Schneider	T	Janis White
Tariq Rahman	Thomas Schnitzer	Eric Tam	Gale Whiteneck
Stacie Raymer	Nicolas Schweighofer	Edward Taub	Einar Wilder-Smith
Steven I. Reger	Erika Scremin	Steve Taylor	G. Wittenberg
Dean M. Reker	Jennifer Shapiro	Beverly Thorn	Erik Wolf
Sandra G. Resnick	Scott B. Shawen	George T. Timberlake
Ian Rice	Fraser Shein	Raymond J. Trybus	Y
Mark Richter	Goeff Shepherd	Warren Tryon	Holly Yanco
Priscilla A. Ridgway	Arthur M. Sherwood	Mitchel B. Turbin	Abu B. Yilla
Patrick Riley	Sean D. Shimada		Michele York
Gordon E. Robertson	Jillian Shipherd	U	Ichiro Yoshimura
Mary Rodgers	John L. Shuster	Gitendra Uswatte
E. Sally Rogers	Hilary Siebens		Z
Mark Rogers	Victor S. Sierpina	V	Ming Zhang
Joshua S. Rolock	Carol A. Silverman	Georgios Vagenas	Wiebren Zijlstra
Miranda Rose	Marca L. Sipski	Rita van den Berg-Emons
Dieter Rosenbaum	Fuschia M. Sirois	Ton van den Bogert
Elliot J. Roth	Harry B. Skinner	Machiel Van der Loos

DOI: 10.1682/JRRD.2007.01.0018

From the Editor's Desk

JRRD Year in Review

Stacieann C. Yuhasz, PhD