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The JNC editorial board meeting was held on September 13, 2019, during the 2019 ASNC Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL; it was anything but an unlucky Friday the 13th! The meeting was well attended and confirmed beyond a doubt the central role of the Journal, not only as the official publication of the ASNC, but also as the main source of new and relevant, diverse information (Figure 1). We have managed to keep the review process short (Figure 2), despite the increased number of submissions (Figure 3). The increased volume of submissions has led, naturally, to a larger number of pages in each printed issue (Figure 4). The production time (accept to Online First) has decreased over the past 5 years to less than 20 days (Figure 5). The number of submissions from outside the US is now greater than those from within the US (Figure 6), which is a testimony to the wisdom of our prior leadership’s decision to not include ‘‘American’’ in the Journal’s name. Through the tireless efforts of ASNC leaders, we are also seeing its membership change, from a majority-US to more international (Figure 7). The impact factor continues to improve (4.112 in the 2018 JCR release) (Figures 8), as does the number of downloads ([380,000 in 2018) (Figure 9). The most downloaded articles are shown in Figures 10, 11, and the most-cited articles during the 2018 Impact Factor window are shown in Figures 12, 13. The Publisher’s memorandum of understanding with the Projekt DEAL group in Germany—along with their existing transformative agreements—is another step in the right direction as it allows authors to publish Open Access at no cost to the author (Figure 14). The power point slides are now regular features of almost all original and review articles (Figures 15, 16) (in this very issue of the JNC, I highlight all of our 2018 papers which were accompanied by PPT slidesets). The audio recordings are now of higher quality, as we have managed to improve and simplify the recording method (Figures 16, 17); the JNC/ASNC Podcast is available on SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes, and many other podcast platforms—please do subscribe! Our social media committee is very active in their promotional engagement (Figure 18), especially via Twitter, where you can follow us on @JNCjournal. In this issue of JNC, Niti Aggarwal provides a summary of the impact of social media on medical publishing, the efforts that she and the social media committee have made, and also shared a short guide on how to get started with Twitter. We have previously written about the new named Awards (we now have a total of 5), and our Award