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(Circulation Research. 2004;94:129.)
© 2004 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editorials

Circulation Research Editors’ Yearly Report: 2003

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

From the Editor in Chief, Associate Editors, and Managing Editor, 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 publication • submissions • thematic review series • impact factor

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We are pleased to produce this yearly report on the status of our journal. Simply put, 2003 was a banner year for Circulation Research, which celebrated its 50th anniversary of publishing the best of basic cardiovascular science and translational research for the American Heart Association. The Editors hope you enjoyed over the past year the many personal reminiscences from prominent individuals in the field who reflected on the past 50 years of cardiovascular research and the journal as a vehicle for publication of the science.

We are pleased to announce in this, our fourth such state-of-the-journal report, that Circulation Research received a total of 1813 manuscripts in 2003. This sets not only a new record for submissions to the journal, but exceeds our previous record by 21.8% (Figure 1). While submissions increased in the past year, our acceptance rate decreased slightly to a near-record low of 19.7% (Figure 2). The Editors remain committed to maintaining the journal’s traditional standards of selectivity, despite the number of submissions received.

View larger version (27K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Number of submissions to Circulation Research by calendar year for 1987 to 2003.

View larger version (18K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 2. Acceptance rate trend by calendar year for 1995 to 2003.

Submissions to the journal were made even easier by the change to a new manuscript tracking system powered by HighWire Press, which enables authors to submit fully and seamlessly online, to track the progress of their manuscript in review, and to read decision letters and reviews online as well. New online . . . [Full Text of this Article]