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(Circulation Research. 2003;92:939.)
© 2003 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editorials

A Three-Decade Dialectic With Circulation Research

Stephen F. Vatner

From the Cardiovascular Research Institute, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ.

Correspondence to Stephen F. Vatner, MD, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, UMDNJ–New Jersey Medical School, MSB G-609, PO Box 1709, 185 S Orange Ave, Newark, NJ 07101-1709. E-mail vatnersf@umdnj.edu

Key Words: scientific publishing • cardiovascular research • impact factor • molecular biology • vascular biology

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Circulation Research is celebrating its proud 50th birthday. I am pleased to be able to contribute to the journal’s Golden Anniversary, since it has been integral to my career over the past three decades. The goal of this editorial is to elucidate this relationship: how the journal shaped my research program and how reciprocal impact was provided to the journal.

My first association with the journal was as a research fellow and subsequently as an author in 1970, when I published my first papers in Circulation Research,¹ and the Editor was Julius Comroe. I remained a regular contributor to the journal through the editorships of Bob Berne, Brian Hoffman, and to the present. When Frank Abboud assumed the editorship in 1981, he appointed me to the Editorial Board. I soon learned that my critical reviews of others’ work were not only passed on to the authors, but, in turn, were graded by the Editors at Iowa. The revelation that the Editor must do more than shepherd the journal proved important to me 10 years later when, interestingly, Frank Abboud was a key member of the search committee that selected me for editorship of Circulation Research.

Circulation Research contributed significantly to many scientific careers, including my own. Submitting and publishing an article in this journal during the formative years of my career was an exciting, interactive process. I enjoyed the conversations with the Editors and Associate Editors, who were always helpful not only in interpreting the criticisms of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]