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(Circulation. 2008;117:4-5.)
© 2008 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editorial

A Bold, New Initiative for Circulation

A Family of Subspecialty Journals

Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD

From the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

Correspondence to Dr Joseph Loscalzo, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail jloscalzo@partners.org

Key Words: Editorials • publishing • journals

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I am pleased to announce plans for a new publishing initiative at Circulation that will take effect this calendar year. Beginning in April, with subsequent launch dates throughout 2008, 6 new subspecialty journals will be published as part of the Circulation family of journals: Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology; Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics; Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging; Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions; Circulation: Cardiovascular Outcomes and Quality; and Circulation: Heart Failure.

The decision to embark on this new publishing venture was made after many hours of hard work and careful deliberation by the editorial staff at Circulation, the American Heart Association Scientific Publishing Committee, and the publisher, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Formal, unanimous approval was granted by the American Heart Association Board of Directors last October.

The decision to develop these new journals was predicated on several growing concerns that we believed urged a thoughtful response. First, the acceptance rate at Circulation remains in the 10% to 12% range. Many articles of excellent scientific quality are rejected on the basis of priority, which generally means that the topics presented in these articles are too narrow in scope for the general readership of Circulation. These priority-based rejections comprise approximately 20% of all submissions and largely fall into the 6 subspecialty disciplines represented by the new journals. Thus, we recognized that there is a clear need to offer a venue of the highest quality for publishing these manuscripts. Second, the field of cardiology, much like scientific publishing itself, continues . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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