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(Circulation Research. 2000;86:111.)
© 2000 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editorials

Under New Management

A Six-Month Progress Report on Circulation Research

Eduardo Marbán, Roberto Bolli, Gerda Breitwieser, Rudi Busse, Hal Dietz, Masao Endoh, Toren Finkel, David Kass, Charles Lowenstein, Marlene Rabinovitch, Gordon Tomaselli

From the Editor in Chief and Associate Editors, Circulation Research.

Correspondence to Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD, 2700 Lighthouse Point East, Suite 230, Baltimore, MD 21224.

Key Words: research commentary • vascular biology • acceptance rate • triage process

	Introduction

 
The editorship of Circulation Research was transferred to us on July 1, 1999. The new editors would like to review the directions that the journal has taken in this time, now that 6 months of data are available. Such an evaluation is particularly timely given that the transition was not merely an editorial one: we deliberately seized the opportunity to implement fundamental changes in the process, notably:

An editorial commitment to decisive action and clear communication

All-electronic manuscript management from receipt in the editorial office to transmission to the publisher

New efforts to maximize information content on the printed page, including the use of online supplements for extended methods and miscellaneous supporting information

Institution of two new electronic manuscript formats: UltraRapid Communications, in which high-priority manuscripts are reviewed very quickly and published online within 1 month of acceptance, and Research Commentaries, peer-reviewed technical comments on work that has appeared in Circulation Research

Adoption of a manuscript triage process whereby noncompetitive or inappropriate manuscripts (comprising about 10% of overall submissions) are identified early in the process, enabling rapid feedback to the authors

Meanwhile, the underlying editorial philosophy has been to do what we can to make Circulation Research the preferred venue for fundamental cardiovascular discovery and translational research. As a corollary, we have consciously sought to maintain balance among the important modern disciplines, including a commitment to nurture the well-established prominence of the journal in vascular biology.

The data indicate that we have made significant progress toward our goals. Figure 1A . . . [Full Text of this Article]