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(Circulation Research. 2002;90:115.)
© 2002 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editorials

Circulation Research Editors’ Yearly Report: 2001

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, Editor in Chief, Circulation Research, 2700 Lighthouse Point East, Suite 230, Baltimore, MD 21224. E-mail circulation.research@circresearch.com

Key Words: Online First • efficiency • thematic review series • clinical research • impact factor

After two and a half years at the helm of Circulation Research, we take this opportunity to reflect on the status of the journal. We are pleased to report that the journal continues to experience an increase in submissions (Figure 1). The number of original papers processed in 2001 was 1487, a new yearly record. Nevertheless, our efforts to maximize the information content of the printed page have succeeded to the degree that we have been able to avoid new length limits while keeping the acceptance rate steady (Figure 2).

View larger version (42K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Number of submissions to Circulation Research by calendar year for 1987 to 2001.

View larger version (18K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 2. Acceptance rate trend by calendar year for 1995 to 2001.

From an operations viewpoint, Circulation Research pioneered the conversion to electronic operations among the American Heart Association Journals, including the implementation of online manuscript submission over the last year. This transition, along with our commitment to minimizing delays at the editorial level, has resulted in considerable and sustained improvements in efficiency relative to the historical norm and to competing journals. Figure 3 shows cumulative 12-month data for times to first decision. For all manuscript categories containing original data, the average time to first decision equaled 3.1 calendar weeks. A comparably brief time (3.2 weeks) was required to render first decisions on Reviews and MiniReviews. For accepted papers, the average time from submission to publication in the print journal for all original research articles remained extremely low at 20 . . . [Full Text of this Article]