After the high-fives were over, the next few weeks were spent on emails, 2, 3, and 4-way calls, conference calls, and face-to-face meetings in various forums trying to map the way forward. Let me next provide you a glimpse of what happened after the first week of May 2009 in San Diego when the selection process came to a close. The number of submissions the prior year was 1578 (2008) and the 2009 impact factor (IF) was 2.862. In 2009, the journal was 32 years old and the publisher was Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW). There was an informal agreement in place for a 6-month transition (details to be decided). How, I imagined, would I even begin to take on Dr Apuzzo's mantle? In short, I will never know. How, I don't know, I got the nod and went back to Atlanta in an anxious emotional fog of dread, foreboding, and buyer's remorse. The AANS meeting in San Diego in early May 2009 was the setting at which the finalists faced the last hurdle with the selection committee. Representing the journal is an intense commitment of time and resources and is almost always out of station. I would borrow one observation from Dr Laws, Editor Emeritus: “You don't have to know everything about everything, but you do need to know a little about a lot.” Of these, time is the most precious and is irreplaceable. Many wonder about the key elements of this role I have summarized what I think makes for a good EIC (Table 1). Forty years and 4 Editors-in-Chief on, that vision remains undimmed. To commemorate his legacy, we resurrected the cover of Volume 1, Issue 1 July/August 1977 in 2017 and Dr Wilkins' first editorial wherein he articulated the key elements that would define the future of the journal ( doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyx287). Their combined toils from the journal headquarters based in their home has become the stuff of CNS legend. NEUROSURGERY Publications and the CNS owe him, and his wife, Gloria, a debt of gratitude. Dr Wilkins' pioneering efforts led to the birth of the journal. I hope this succeeds as the others have” (see Figure 1, first cover of July/August 1977 republished in July 2017 on the 40th anniversary). Wilkins presciently observed at the outset, “We're off on another Congress venture. The inaugural EIC, CNS Past President, and Professor of Neurosurgery at Duke University, Robert H. In considering a worthy testimonial to these Editors Emeriti, I have appropriated that of the great architect, Sir Christopher Wren, “Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice” (“Reader, if you seek a monument, look around you”)-see cover. Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons was first published in 1977 and it has had 5 Editors-in-Chief (EIC): Robert Wilkins (1977-1982), Clark Watts (1982-1987), Edward Laws Jr (1987-1992), Michael L.
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