2023 AOSSM Annual Meeting Recordings with CME-Current Concepts AJSM Report

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The speaker begins by sharing a personal story about his introduction to machine learning during his MBA program at MIT. He explains how machine learning algorithms are now used by companies to predict the success of stocks and portfolios. He then discusses the increasing number of current concepts articles being published, with a run rate of almost 400 articles per year. As the number of articles published has increased, the number of rejections has decreased. The speaker also mentions the days to publication, with online publication taking about 165 days, but print publication taking 563 days. The speaker expresses a desire to improve the time it takes to get articles into print. They also discuss the acceptance rate for current concepts articles, aiming to keep it between 12 and 18%. The speaker goes on to review trends in current concepts, such as orthobiologics, statistical fragility, hip arthroscopy, and ACL reconstructions. They then discuss their own performance as an editor, including their efforts to communicate with authors and reviewers and improve the quality of articles published. The speaker also presents five articles and asks the audience to decide whether they should be sent out for review or rapid rejected. They end by discussing narrative reviews and the interest in COVID-19 related research.

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Timothy Foster

Keywords

machine learning

stock prediction

current concepts articles

publication process

editor performance