Lisa Fortier

Jan 22, 2025 | avmajournals.avma.org | Lisa Fortier

Your editorial staff has been pondering for a couple of years how to improve our reporting of clinically relevant statistics with effect size and CIs and with less reliance on P values. I will take full ownership for taking so long to get to this. Like many, I was raised on ANOVAs and regression analysis and relied on P values for interpreting the results of my own studies and those of others.

Oct 29, 2024 | avmajournals.avma.org | Lisa Fortier

As busy professionals, it can be difficult to keep track of all that the AVMA is doing in the many areas important to our practices. One such topic is antimicrobial stewardship. In this issue of JAVMA, we share 2 related research articles on antimicrobial stewardship from collaborators at Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, and the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine.

Sep 1, 2024 | avmajournals.avma.org | Lisa Fortier

Toward the end of June every year, journal publishers and editors anxiously await the release of Journal Citation Reports, a comprehensive analysis that ranks over 20,000 journals on the basis of one metric: the average number of times the articles published in that journal are referenced in the academic literature.

Aug 1, 2024 | avmajournals.avma.org | Lisa Fortier

In my January 2024 editorial, “Evidence-based journal strategies for 2024,” I mentioned that we would be conducting a JAVMA and AJVR reader and author survey in Q1 2024. The results of the JAVMA/AJVR survey are now in, analyzed, and ready for action.