Table 2 Your Journal has had an extraordinarily good past few years, as is attested to by the 2012 impact factor of 5.302 and an immediacy index of 1.343 (Figure 1).1 This places the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA) as the most highly ranked of any of the clinical geriatric journals (Table 1). The impact factor is the average number of citations received per article published in the previous 2 years. The immediacy index is the number of citations to articles a journal received in the most recent year divided by the number of articles published. The editors are very grateful for the high quality of submissions that have allowed the Journal to be successful. The top 20 best-cited articles from 2011 are given in Table 2. These include the highest-cited article from JAMDA of all time: “A consensus conference on sarcopenia” by Roger Fielding and colleagues.2 The second most highly cited article this year was also on sarcopenia.3 Four of the articles were on undernutrition4e7 and 2 on vitamin D.8,9 The International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics Global Agenda for Nursing Homes was the third highest cited article.10 Among the top 20 cited articles from 2010, 5 were on frailty22e26 and 7 on nutrition (Table 3).27e33 For 2012, there are already 20 articles cited 6 or more times (Table 4).42e61 These include articles on sarcopenia, resistance exercise, and protein,42e45 and a series of articles validating the Minimum Data Set 3.0.48,50,51,58